Questions tagged [fear]

It occurred to me some time ago that fear is the result of a lack of control, and try as I might I cannot conceive fear existing without this vacancy. Looked at from the other direction, in a situation where you feel completely in control is it…

Let’s use fear as an example and negative events as events that may cause that fear. Should fear, if you feel it, and the intensity of it correlate with how strongly likely an event is? For example, if you were to drive a car at 110 miles per hour,…

Which philosopher said the fear of anticipating an evil is worse than the evil itself? Perhaps Aristotle (in Nichomachean Ethics?) said something along these lines?

If I fear X, does that usually mean that I am worried that X may be true even if there is no evidence for it? If so, is fear nothing but an unjustified assumption? Note that by fear, I do not mean the fight or flight response you may have from…