- Tytuł:
- The Heuristics of Fear: Can the Ambivalence of Fear Teach Us Anything in the Technological Age?
- Autorzy:
- Tibaldeo, Roberto Franzini
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/781356.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2015
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
- Tematy:
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Fear
Responsibility
Hans Jonas
Heuristics of Fear
Technological Risks - Opis:
- 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.
- Źródło:
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Ethics in Progress; 2015, 6, 1; 225-238
2084-9257 - Pojawia się w:
- Ethics in Progress
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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