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How to Hope Well

How to Hope Well

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Physician and medical ethicist Dr. Lydia Dugdale (Columbia University) argues hope isn’t a careless wish—it’s a practiced habit oriented toward a future good that’s hard but possible. We talk about hope as a communal discipline, the dangers on both sides—despair and false hope—how doctors actually handle prognoses, why imagination relates to hope, and whether “AI grief avatars” help or harm. Along the way: Aquinas, Augustine, and Howard E. Butt Jr. advising us to stay “steady in the saddle.”

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  • Hope You’re Well! No, But Really. - Echoes Magazine
  • Lydia S. Dugdale, MD | Division of General Medicine
  • The Lost Art of Dying – HarperCollins
  • Between Presumption and Despair: Augustine's Hope for the Commonwealth | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
  • SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: Hope, considered in itself (Secunda Secundae Partis, Q. 17)
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