Imagine that your lover or close friend has embraced a difficult long-term goal, such as advancing environmental justice, breaking a bad habit, or striving to become a better person. Which stance should you adopt towards their prospects for success? Does supporting our significant others in the pursuit of valuable goals require ignoring part of our evidence? I argue that we have special reasons––reasons grounded in friendship––to hope that our loved ones succeed in their difficult goals. I further propose that hope is an attitude governed by distinctive norms of epistemic rationality. It has a unique impact on motivation and rational action and a special capacity to be met with uptake in hope. Owing to these features, hope is the central attitudinal dimension of truly amiable support based on ‘just vision’.

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人际交往的希望和爱的关注


想象一下，您的爱人或密友已经接受了一个艰难的长期目标，例如推进环境正义、改掉坏习惯或努力成为一个更好的人。您应该对他们的成功前景采取哪种立场？支持我们的重要他人追求有价值的目标是否需要忽略我们的部分证据？我认为我们有特殊的理由——基于友谊的理由——希望我们所爱的人能成功实现他们的艰难目标。我进一步提出，希望是一种受认识理性的独特规范支配的态度。它对动机和理性行动具有独特的影响，并且具有与希望相结合的特殊能力。由于这些特点，希望是基于“公正的愿景”的真正和蔼可亲的支持的核心态度维度。