| ### QUESTION 40 ### OF THE IRASCIBLE PASSIONS, AND FIRST, OF HOPE AND DESPAIR ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the irascible passions: (1) Hope and despair; (2) Fear and daring; (3) Anger. Under first head there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether hope is the same as desire or cupidity? #### (2) Whether hope is in the apprehensive, or in the appetitive faculty? #### (3) Whether hope is in dumb animals? #### (4) Whether despair is contrary to hope? #### (5) Whether experience is a cause of hope? #### (6) Whether hope abounds in young men and drunkards? #### (7) Concerning the order of hope to love; #### (8) Whether love conduces to action? ####  |