Hope and Its Virtues

Abstract

According to María Zambrano, hope is the name of this relation to the absence and incompleteness that constitutes us. It is of course a will, but a specific will, as radically distinguishes both libido sciendi philosophers stigmatized by. St. Augustine as the Freudian libido. Both make up to some extent the two polarities equidistant from which Zambrano always remained: the deified subject of idealist philosophy on the one hand, the subject ripped by materialism of Freudian libido on the other. From this equidistance came the idea for this to make Maria Zambrano speak with Kant, unavoidable reference of any reflection on hope.