This paper considers the kind of control we exercise over hope. In doing so, we situate our discussion against the backdrop of the growing literature on hope's nature. Several important analyses of hope have the implication that, once the relevant desires and beliefs for hope are present, an agent can (sometimes) directly control whether they hope. But we argue against the possibility of direct control. This is because hope bears systematic relationships with fear and despair; and the view that we can directly control hope makes wrong predictions about the extent to which we can control fear and despair. Throughout the paper, we explain how prominent theories of hope can be amended to better reflect the ways in which hope is controllable. In this way, the paper identifies an underexplored fault line in the philosophy of hope, one which cuts across more familiar ways of cataloguing theories of hope.

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控制希望

本文考虑了我们对希望的控制。在这样做的过程中，我们将讨论置于关于希望本质的文献不断增长的背景下。对希望的几项重要分析暗示，一旦存在对希望的相关愿望和信念，代理人可以（有时）直接控制他们是否希望。但我们反对直接控制的可能性。这是因为希望与恐惧和绝望有着系统的关系。我们可以直接控制希望的观点对我们可以控制恐惧和绝望的程度做出了错误的预测。在整篇论文中，我们解释了如何修改著名的希望理论，以更好地反映希望可控的方式。通过这种方式，本文确定了希望哲学中一个未被充分探索的断层线，