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Hope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2010

Stewart Sutherland
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Most of us have probably heard Samuel Johnson's witticism about the reported proposal of an acquaintance to enter into a second marriage—‘the triumph of hope over experience’. Whatever that tells us about his friend's previous marriage, it tells us quite a bit about the popular understanding of hope. A similiar point was implied by J. B. Priestley when he referred to whisky distillers marketing faith and hope at twelve shillings and sixpence per bottle, and not for the first time G. K. Chesterton got it superficially wrong in defining hope as ‘the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate’.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 25 , March 1989 , pp. 193 - 206
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1989

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