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• Title:
  The Heuristics of Fear: Can the Ambivalence of Fear Teach Us Anything in the Technological Age?
• Creator:
  Tibaldeo, Roberto Franzini
• Description:
  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 public-collective. 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.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Ethics in Progress
• Date:
  2015.02.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  ETHICS IN PROGRESS; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015); 225-238;
  Ethics in Progress; Tom 6 Nr 1 (2015); 225-238;
  2084-9257
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/9331/9038
• Subject:
  Fear;
  Responsibility;
  Hans Jonas;
  Heuristics of Fear;
  Technological Risks
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/9331
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text