1. , One is reminded of the deathlessness in the midst of death of human history in Hegel's vision: “… ruin is … emergence of a new life, … out of life arises death, but out of death, life. … In the … image of the Phoenix, … it refers to all natural life, continuously preparing its own pyre and consuming itself so that from its ashes the new, rejuvenated, fresh life continually arises.”.
2. Hegel, G. W. F.
, 1953.
Hartman, R. S.
, ed. Reason In History . New York: The Bobbs‐Merrill Co., Inc.; 1953. p. 88f.
3. Sartre, Jean‐Paul
, 1956. Being and Nothingness . New York: Philosophical Library; 1956. p. 615.
4. , As an aside. With all the radical noting of freedom, the early Sartre still gets into the cul‐de‐sac of “a useless passion”. This makes one wonder whether freedom might not be the panacea of our miseries. Freedom is indeed an important ingredient of hope, but hope is more than freedom. Hope is freedom under the widest and richest horizon possible, the horizon of respectful togetherness, to be discussed toward the end of the present paper.
5. 1965. Images of Hope . Baltimore: Helicon; 1965. p. 34.