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These essays consider the three traditional theological virtues—faith, hope, and love—alongside their opposites—doubt, despair, and hate, from a scholarly perspective. The volume includes contributions not just from philosophers of religion, but also from psychologists, sociologists, and film and literature scholars, to paint a complex and nuanced picture of these virtues, both of how we might understand them, and how we can hope to embody them ourselves. While these virtues make up a core part of the Christian tradition, the chapters here go far and wide in search of different cultural conceptions of these universal human concerns. Inquiries are made into these virtues within Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic thought, alongside philosophers including Aristotle, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Levinas, and Murdoch. The resulting tapestry is often beautiful, sometimes horrific, but always thoroughly human. This text appeals to students and researchers working in these fields.
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Contents
1. Introduction: Virtue and Vice.- I: Faith and Doubt.- 2. Faith (and Doubt?) Among the Virtues.- 3. Restoring Faith, Curing Doubt: Krsna's Instruction in the Bhagavad Gita.- 4. Faith, Doubt, and the Buddhist Path of Enlightenment.- 5. Kierkegaard on Faith, Doubt, and Uncertainty.- 6. Wilfred Cantwell Smith: Scholar, Mentor, and Humanist.- II: Hope and Despair.- 7. Dante's Commedia: from Despair to Hope to Glory.- 8. Radical Hope, Despair and Time: Responses to Nietzsche.- 9. Hope but not Optimism: The Kantian Mind at the End of All Things.- III: Love and Hate.- 10. How to 'Love Thy Neighbor': Lessons from G.W.F. Hegel on Conflict and Reconciliation.- 11. Making Lovers: Emmanuel Levinas and Iris Murdoch on Moral Formation.- 12. Empathy and its Critics.- 13. What Muslim Scholars Talk About When They Talk About Love.- 14. Bhakti and Accidental Grace: Hate as Love in the Hindu Tradition.- 15. Obedience and Love in Christian Ethics.- 16. The Happiness of Promise: Ferdinand Holler andAlexander Nehamas on Love and Care.
