Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness

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Essays in Finitude

By John T. Lysaker

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Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness by John T. Lysaker presents a new ethics of human finitude through three experimental essays. It explores how hope, trust, and forgiveness are essential capacities that contend with our limitations as ethical beings. Lysaker examines the personal and institutional challenges these experiences pose and suggests ways to embrace them for human flourishing, advancing an approach he terms improvisational perfectionism.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in philosophy, ethics, and human relationships, including students, educators, and scholars exploring the challenges of human finitude and ethical growth.

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A new ethics of human finitude developed through three experimental essays.

As ethical beings, we strive for lives that are meaningful and praiseworthy. But we are finite. We do not know, so we hope. We need, so we trust. We err, so we forgive. In this book, philosopher John T. Lysaker draws our attention to the ways in which these three capacities—hope, trust, and forgiveness—contend with human limits.

Each experience is vital to human flourishing, yet each also poses significant personal and institutional challenges as well as opportunities for growth. Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness explores these challenges and opportunities and proposes ways to best meet them. In so doing, Lysaker experiments with the essay as a form and advances an improvisational perfectionism to deepen and expand our ethical horizons.

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Praised for its nuanced, powerful writing, the book draws on diverse philosophical traditions to explore human relationships with uncertainty and injustice. Reviewers describe it as a rich, intimate work that advocates decency and care, capturing the complexity of lived experience and emphasising the courage and imagination required to hope, trust, and forgive amidst finitude.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226827919

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 367g

Pages: 256

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Education & Reference John T. Lysaker Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

John T. Lysaker is the William R. Kenan Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He is the author of many books, including Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought, also published by the University of Chicago Press.