id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt bv73bz62h4r David Michael Elliot Rethinking Happiness: The Role of Hope in Virtue Ethics 2014 .txt text/plain 402 14 52 Since the virtue of hope encourages the agent with the prospect of perfect and lasting beatitude, I argue that the gap leaves room for the virtue of hope to be recognized as good news rather than just curious news within virtue ethics and in human life generally. As a practical application of hope, I develop the ars moriendi or art of dying as a resource for end-of-life care in an aging society where death is often seen as unintelligible and approached with despair. cache/bv73bz62h4r.txt txt/bv73bz62h4r.txt