Corporeità, passioni, valori. Per una fenomenologia del la paur

• Main Author: Fabio Di Clemente
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2007-01-01
• Series: Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy
• Subjects: Merleau; Ponty; Body; Fear; French Revolutio
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ethic/article/view/17434

<div>This critical essay explores the theme of passion through an analysis of the social and ethical importance&nbsp;of fear. To this aim, it preliminarily constructs a methodological picture using the philosophy of MerleauPonty, in dialogue with other thinkers, particularly Viktor von Weizs&auml;cker. &nbsp;From the methodological&nbsp;result, through which the dualism between subject and object is exceeded in &ldquo;the more radical way&rdquo;,</div><div>the essay proceeds to integrate feeling and thinking, the biological and the social, the real and the&nbsp;imaginary, the historical and the mythical. It derives from such premise that a passion such as fear is&nbsp;revaluated without dualisms and reductionisms. The revaluation of fear as ethical and social passion&nbsp;develops particularly through an historical event such as French Revolution. The result emphasizes the&nbsp;importance of fear as social and not reductively as private passion and its consequent contribution for&nbsp;social changes.</div>