Fear - David Hume, M. Heidiger, JS Sartre, Oswald Spengler /part 2/

Sartre binds the fear of freedom. He says that the consciousness of freedom takes the form of fear, or that fear is a way of the existence of freedom of being. Like Heydiger, he distinguishes between fear and fright. Fear is from the beings of the world, and fear is ours. Fear is not from the abyss, but that I can jump into the abyss. Fear allows us to construct a possible behavior towards an object. Fear may be frightened - fear, but a sudden fear can also be experienced - for example if we are putting a task that causes us a reaction that we will not deal with it, that is, we fear our own behavior without fear of the consequences of this failure.

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Sartre binds the fear of the realized or unfulfilled opportunities that one has. I oppose the threatening and design of my own opportunities to get away from it. But the fear arises because these are only possible actions. At the moment I perceive myself as the horror of the abyss, all these possible actions are indefinite, and there comes the fear. According to Sartre in fear, freedom feels fear of itself. But the future that I'm trying to construct is beyond my reach. When in fear I am trying to construct this future, I put the possibilities as my own, so my mind is self-designing in the future, but because of the limit of the unpredictable, it is also detached from this projection. If I set a meeting, there is a stalemate of the possibility that I can not be able to attend the meeting even if I decide not to go. Sartre looks at the fear of the past. One decides how to do it, but the fear of the past may hinder or incite him to act.

The gambling type must survive the fear of past actions to keep from playing. But there is nothing in front of him to stop him. Only fear can deter him. That is why freedom of choice is bound up with fear. Sartre looks at the ethical fear. For him in an initial position about your values, you can feel fear of them, thus recognizing their ideal. We are free to respect them or not, but there is again the fear that controls our freedom. In conclusion, we build a way of behaving against our own fear. But we can not escape from fear, because the fear we are.

For Spengler, one forms a shame from the identity of the world, in front of its scale against the background of the small and insignificant as dust. Fear of oblivion to eternity. According to him, this fear is formed on the basis of the yearning of the world. The craving strives for completion, and thus becomes fear. Completion implies an end, and the end determines the attitude of the present with the fleeting and past with morbidity. The root of the eternal fear of the irreversible, the final, the realization (the end of life), the limit of life - the death. This about Spengler is an eternal fear of a child's soul that does not leave a person. For him this Ecumenical fear stimulates creativity, we sink into it, forgetting our fears. It materializes not only in creativity but also in the cultural symbols of every age.