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Fear beyond danger| title | Fear beyond danger |
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| start_date | 2023/02/07 |
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| schedule | 10h30-11h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | meeting room |
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| summary | The objective of this paper is to analyse the triadic relationship between fear, danger, and the sense of control. Many agree that the more we feel that we can handle a given situation, the less afraid we are. But why ? Here I argue that it is not because one no longer represents the situation as dangerous. In order for one to react to danger in cold blood, one must be aware of it as such. This indicates that there is more to fear than being aware of danger. I then propose that the formal object of fear is not the dangerous, but the unsafe. The unsafe is an evaluative property that is constitutively dual. On the one hand, it evaluates how dangerous the situation is, that is, how likely one is to be harmed if one does not react in the appropriate way. On the other hand, it evaluates how much control one has over the situation. According to what I call the unsafe view, fear consists in taking a negative agentive stance towards what one represents as being dangerous, which asserts that one does not feel able to fully neutralize it. |
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| oncancel | Annulé |
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| responsibles | Boisserie-Lacroix, Dokic |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/02/01 15:02 UTC |
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