ABSTRACT Hope is not about the future. It denotes an existential human way of being and way of being within the present. 'Dum spiro, spero (As long as I breathe, I hope)' characterizes its fundamental aspect in life. Hope is not optimism towards the outlook, not an expectation of positive outcomes. Hope is a specific quality of being a person in the meaning of being fully oneself and being fully with others. It is more than human’s capability to counterbalance fear and despair by envisioning something better and different from endurance. Rather, it is an active stance, the art of being fully present – with others. Thus, hope is a person-centered essential. It can be understood as the voice of the actualizing tendency, because it rests on the belief that potentiality is as important as actuality. Beyond the meaning of hope as a competence of the person, its importance in life and therapy the paper discusses how the present societal and political challenges can be met by a person-centered understanding of hope and trust: the task is not to raise hopes, but to facilitate hope; not to aim at solutions in order to change the world, but to encounter it.

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希望的力量以人为中心的视角对当代个人和社会挑战

摘要 希望与未来无关。它表示一种存在主义的人类存在方式和存在于当下的方式。“Dum spiro, spero（只要我呼吸，我希望）”是它在生活中的基本特征。希望不是对前景的乐观，也不是对积极结果的期望。希望是作为一个人的一种特定品质，意思是充分地做自己并充分地与他人相处。它不仅仅是人类通过设想更好的和不同于耐力的东西来平衡恐惧和绝望的能力。相反，它是一种积极的姿态，一种完全存在于他人的艺术。因此，希望是一个以人为本的基本要素。它可以被理解为实现趋势的声音，因为它建立在潜力与现实同等重要的信念之上。除了希望作为人的能力的意义之外，它在生活和治疗中的重要性本文还讨论了如何通过以人为中心的希望和信任的理解来应对当前的社会和政治挑战：任务不是提高希望，而是为了促进希望；不是为了改变世界而瞄准解决方案，而是去迎接它。