Popławski, Jarosław (Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 1989)
Ernst Bloch is one of the most outstanding contemporary philosophers. His main work is, undoubtedly, "Das Prinzip Hoffnung" (I-III, Berlin 1954-1959; Frankfurt am Main 1974) in which he brings up the philosophy of hope. He claimed that man could never be satisfied with what he is. Man is constantly seeking and aiming at something. Thus Bloch defines man as a creature coming from far away, which creature is never "at home", but all the time in motion up to the place where his existence would experience repose. Man is under the process of constant becoming. Man's future depends to a grest extent on the power of the influence of hope. However, the question of hope, as it is seen by Bloch, does not bear any religious character. One can say, then, that his conception of hope is purely naturalistic.
