Fear and Reason

• Autores: John Kekes
• Localización: Philosophy, ISSN-e 1469-817X, Vol. 88, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 555-574
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The subject of this paper is a particular kind of fear. The danger to which it is a response is the possibility that the evaluative dimension of life from which we derive the values by which we live is arbitrary. If it were arbitrary, nothing we value would be valuable. There are strong reasons both for and against this kind of fear. I am concerned with understanding these reasons and judging their strengths and weaknesses.