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Erratum to: Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism. Edited by Katerina Mihaylova and Anna Ezekiel. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. 328 pp. ISBN 9781350238107

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Erratum to: Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism. Edited by Katerina Mihaylova and Anna Ezekiel. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. 328 pp. ISBN 9781350238107, Besprochen von: Claudia Blöser, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, cbloeser@uni-koeln.de, Volume 116, Issue 2 pages 314 – 320. (https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2025-2007):

The name of Rory Phillips on page 316 was misspelled as Rory Philipps. The correct paragraph should read as follows:

The discussion of a Kantian argument in favor of the sustaining role of hope for action ties in particularly well with the two chapters that focus on Fichte’s account. In “Fichte on Optimism and Pessimism”, Rory Phillips reconstructs Fichte’s argument for why, as moral agents, we must cultiwvate a hopeful attitude. The similarity to Kant’s moral argument is no coincidence, since Fichte himself discusses the key principles of Kant’s moral arguments for the existence of God in “Ueber den Grund unsers Glaubens an eine göttliche Weltordnung” (114). Fichte works out a foundational principle of action that is encapsulated in the slogan “trying implies believing possible” (114). Phillips distinguishes a weaker and a stronger reading of this principle: it is irrational or even impossible (presumably: psychologically impossible) to try to bring about a certain end unless one believes it to be possible. Fichte, according to Phillips, endorses the stronger version and therefore holds that if we act to bring about an end (moral or otherwise), we must “endorse the hope that it will become actual” (115).

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