Hope and history

The famous and popular Thomistic philosopher addresses the topic of hope from the perspective of human history and asks the "Is man's hope such that it can find any fulfillment in the field of human history?" "Is man's human history such that it can give us any grounds not to despair?" Pieper looks at the movement of history, the idea of progress, man's hope for a better future, and he counters the temptation to despair with a Christian philosophy of hope based on faith in divine providence and the compatibility of faith and reason.