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Article: Fear: A Genealogy of Morals(*).(feelings of vulnerability)(Abstract)
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- December 22, 2000
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FEAR is an ancient topic in the history of political thought. According to Thucydides, the Athenians claimed it was one of the three "strongest motives" for human action--the other two being honor and interest (1982, p. 44). Aristotle devoted a significant portion of the Ethics to a discussion of courage and cowardice, which he saw as the boundary conditions of virtue and vice. According to Aristotle, how a person responded to fear was a telling indicator of his capacity for ethical conduct.(1) Succumbing to fear and acting cowardly suggested an insufficiently realized moral education, whereas acting courageously in the face of particular dangers meant that one had ...
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