Original scientific paper
The courage to be and the end of the world
Anita Calvert
orcid.org/0000-0001-7272-4890
; The Faculty of philsophy of the Society of Jesus, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
One of the greatest values of human being and her/his unique role in the world is giving life to forms created in their minds into shared world. Once this ability has been obstructed, humans rebel against the destiny they themselves or fate has brought and confronted them with. In this text we will analyze the proper human attitude in front of the threats of self-affirmation in existence, morals and their true, unique being. The best approach to the meaning of those threats is in understanding their most extensive scales, like the threats of different visions of the end of these worlds are. Each vision demands a proper human attitude. Consequently, each ‘the end of the world’ gives a new perspective of what the courage is, in itself.
Keywords
courage; virtue; the end of the world; world; nothingness; personal world; crises; Paul Tillich; Aristotle; Plato
Hrčak ID:
100380
URI
Publication date:
3.12.2012.
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