On Thursday, October 9, starting at 10.00 a.m., the PhD student Teresa Lasala thesis defense will take place at Sala de Graus of La Salle Campus Barcelona. Entitled 'The concept “hope” as a reality transforming tool according to Josef Pieper', the thesis has been carried out under the direction of PhD Carles Llinàs Puente.
The real and explicit idea of this work is to explore the concept hope which Josef Pieper intends to make us clear. What we are talking about is not only an attitude towards life. It implies the totality of person in all the spheres of existence, and it has the power to lead the steps in one or another direction. Furthermore, it becomes the answer to the question of sense of human life, which is considered a way towards whole happiness.
It is for this reason that the most important question could be put this way: Is this hope charged with a transformation power over the individual and social reality, over present and future circumstances? And, if the answer is affirmative, then the idea is trying to identify which are the means capable of changing defined situations, untie conflicts, and achieving what was considered unattainable.
Pieper thinks real hope is born of love. It cannot be affected by circumstances or projects. So, it has no relation with personal environment, it is rather an internal quality, a free action born of the human will and the feeling of greatness which is inherent to every person on earth. This act is a hallmark that determines the final vital success or total failure, and gives real sense to the way we lead, whatever muddles we may find in it.
The court is made up of the president PhD Armando Jesús Pego Puigbó; the secretary, PhD Magdalena Bosch Rabell; and the member, PhD Ignacio Javier Fuster Camp.