The Courage To Be Anxious. Paul Tillich's Existential Interpretation of Anxiety

The similitude between anxiety and death is the starting point of Paul Tillich's analysis from The Courage To Be, his famous theological and philosophical reply to Martin Heidegger's Being And Time. Not only Tillich and Heidegger are concerned with the connection between anxiety and death...

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Main Author: Ştefan Bolea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation Pro Scientia Publica 2015-09-01
Series:Journal of Education Culture and Society
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Online Access:http://nowadays.home.pl/JECS/data/documents/JECS=202015=20=281=29=2020-25.pdf
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spelling doaj-85c62884d23b4dcdb649407ab5cf58e72020-11-25T03:23:02ZengFoundation Pro Scientia PublicaJournal of Education Culture and Society2081-16402081-16402015-09-0120151202510.15503/jecs20151.20.25The Courage To Be Anxious. Paul Tillich's Existential Interpretation of AnxietyŞtefan Bolea0Babeş-Bolyai UniversityThe similitude between anxiety and death is the starting point of Paul Tillich's analysis from The Courage To Be, his famous theological and philosophical reply to Martin Heidegger's Being And Time. Not only Tillich and Heidegger are concerned with the connection between anxiety and death but also other proponents of both existentialism and nihilism like Friedrich Nietzsche, Emil Cioran and Lev Shestov. Tillich observes that "anxiety puts frightening masks" over things and perhaps this definition is its finest contribution to the spectacular phenomenology of anxiety. Moreover, Tillich has some illuminating insights about the anxiety of emptiness and meaninglessness, which are important for the history of the existential philosophy. It is interesting how the protestant theologian tries to answer to Heidegger: while the German philosopher asserted that we must avoid fear and we have to embrace anxiety as a route to personal authenticity, Tillich notes that we should transform anxiety into fear, because courage is more likely to "abolish" fear.http://nowadays.home.pl/JECS/data/documents/JECS=202015=20=281=29=2020-25.pdfanxietyfearcouragedeathexistentialismphenomenologynihilismmeontologymeaninglessnessauthenticity
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The Courage To Be Anxious. Paul Tillich's Existential Interpretation of Anxiety
Journal of Education Culture and Society
anxiety
fear
courage
death
existentialism
phenomenology
nihilism
meontology
meaninglessness
authenticity
author_facet Ştefan Bolea
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title The Courage To Be Anxious. Paul Tillich's Existential Interpretation of Anxiety
title_short The Courage To Be Anxious. Paul Tillich's Existential Interpretation of Anxiety
title_full The Courage To Be Anxious. Paul Tillich's Existential Interpretation of Anxiety
title_fullStr The Courage To Be Anxious. Paul Tillich's Existential Interpretation of Anxiety
title_full_unstemmed The Courage To Be Anxious. Paul Tillich's Existential Interpretation of Anxiety
title_sort courage to be anxious. paul tillich's existential interpretation of anxiety
publisher Foundation Pro Scientia Publica
series Journal of Education Culture and Society
issn 2081-1640
2081-1640
publishDate 2015-09-01
description The similitude between anxiety and death is the starting point of Paul Tillich's analysis from The Courage To Be, his famous theological and philosophical reply to Martin Heidegger's Being And Time. Not only Tillich and Heidegger are concerned with the connection between anxiety and death but also other proponents of both existentialism and nihilism like Friedrich Nietzsche, Emil Cioran and Lev Shestov. Tillich observes that "anxiety puts frightening masks" over things and perhaps this definition is its finest contribution to the spectacular phenomenology of anxiety. Moreover, Tillich has some illuminating insights about the anxiety of emptiness and meaninglessness, which are important for the history of the existential philosophy. It is interesting how the protestant theologian tries to answer to Heidegger: while the German philosopher asserted that we must avoid fear and we have to embrace anxiety as a route to personal authenticity, Tillich notes that we should transform anxiety into fear, because courage is more likely to "abolish" fear.
topic anxiety
fear
courage
death
existentialism
phenomenology
nihilism
meontology
meaninglessness
authenticity
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