On the role of hope in Kierkegaard, his thoughts on Abraham and Isaac relate to Jonathan Lear's Radical Hope, a work describing American Indian Chief Plenty Coup  and his vision in response to the collapse of an entire way of life in the aftermath of the white man’s invasion. As with the consequences of climate change, what happens when a culture dies? The issue is not genocide. Many of the people survive; but their culture is gone.

The things that get left behind

"...Concerning marriage, it is certain that this is in harmony with reason, if the desire for physical union be not engendered solely by bodily beauty, but also by the desire to beget children and to train them up wisely; and moreover, if the love of both, to wit, of the two partners, is not caused by bodily beauty only, but also by FREEDOM OF SOUL."

from 'Ethics' by Baruch Spinoza (1632 -1677)

Because I love