Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it. (Jonathan Lear)

Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it.

Jonathan Lear

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