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The explanatory thrust of this essay requires employment of two models. Explanation takes place within a certain interpretive context, and there can be differing interpretive contexts within which hope is situated.
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Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. with prologue and notes by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970);
Gabriel Marcel, “I and Thou,” in The Philosophy of Martin Buber, ed. Paul A. Schilpp and Maurice Friedman, Library of Living Philosophers, vol. 12 (LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court, and London: Cambridge University Press, 1967), pp. 41–48.
Cf. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, trans. Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1966), pt. 3, chap. 3, sec. III, B, “The We-Subject,” pp. 547–56.
MB 1, 220–21.
MB 2, 14–16. Beyond the level of description, he presents reality as intersubjective; see chapter 18, Implication, Ontology, and Indication.
Similar appreciative encounter with a flower is explored by D.T. Suzuki in his essay “Existentialism, Pragmatism, and Zen,” pp. 270–73;
this essay appears in Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki, ed. William Barrett (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1956).
Helpful on models is the work of Ian Barbour. His definition of “model” is in his Myths, Models and Paradigms (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), p. 6.
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Godfrey, J.J. (1987). Ontologies. In: Godfrey, J.J. (eds) A Philosophy of Human Hope. Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3499-3_15
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