ABSTRACT
A reader’s and a jury’s appropriation and habitation are both dialectically related to the rational process of argumentation and reflection. The former is based upon a commitment to the rational principle, the latter to reasonable hope. Sonorous Being is the ontological nature of the commitment to the rational principle, or reasonable hope expressed in the dynamic of resonance of corporate and particular intentionalities. In his study entitled, ‘What Ontology in View?’, Paul Ricoeur concludes his discussion of Aristotle’s energeia by making some brief but seemingly significant observations upon Spinoza’s idea of conatus in the Ethics which may shed light upon the notion of Reasonable Hope. He claims that it is in man that conatus is clearly readable, particularly in relation to consciousness. Hamlet’s self-reflection is not rooted in the powerful dynamic of Reasonable Hope which informs practical wisdom. Don Quixote’s unconstrained hope is not subject to an apprenticeship of tragic wisdom.
