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Is Hope a Virtue?
In aristo, in aristotelian terms, if something is going to be a virtue, it's got to fulfil at least two conditions. It's got to help you flourish and contribute to a good life. And the other is, you've got to be able to practise it. If that's true, then hope doesn't look like a very good candidate for being a virtue. The greeks were bent on, you know, measure and self ma so for the christians, it's a bit the opposite. By receiving hope, you realize that what you want most is not something that you can bring about. But from bat perspective, hope is excellent because it's not