The courage and the fear: an incessant dialogue
Callieri, B.
Recenti Progressi in Medicina 99(9): 440-442
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0034-1193 PMID: 19044252 Document Number: 616742
The wide range of modulations of the experience of fear and of courage is here explained with its resonances. From the sensorial to the spirituals feelings, the author recalls the dialectics between passion and reason and underlines the unavoidable existential reference to the "timor et tremor" by Kierkegaard and to the "courage to be" by Tillich. At the outcome of this dialectics between fear and courage, the author places the fortitudo, both Stoic and Christian.