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2015
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Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Wydział Nauk Społecznych, Instytut Filozofii UAM
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The Heuristics of Fear: Can the Ambivalence of Fear Teach Us Anything?
Abstract
The paper assumes that fear presents a certain degree
of ambivalence. To say it with Hans Jonas (1903-1993), fear is
not only a negative emotion, but may teach us something very
important: we recognize what is relevant when we perceive that
it is at stake. Under this respect, fear may be assumed as a guide
to responsibility, a virtue that is becoming increasingly important,
because of the role played by human technology in the current
ecological crisis. Secondly, fear and responsibility concern
both dimensions of human action: private-individual and publiccollective.
What the ‘heuristics of fear’ teaches us, is to become
aware of a deeper ambivalence, namely the one which characterizes
as such human freedom, which may aim to good or bad,
to self-preservation or self-destruction. Any public discussion concerning
political or economic issues related with human action
(at an individual or collective level) ought not to leave this essential
idea out of consideration.
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Responsibility, heuristics of fear, technological risks, Hans Jonas
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Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2015, Tom 4, Nr 1, pp. 68-86.