The courage to be
By: Paul Tillich ; with a new introduction by Harvey Cox
Contributors: Cox, Harvey, 1929- writer of introduction
Edition: Third edition.
Series: [Terry lecture -- 1952]; Terry lectures
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780300188790
Subjects: Courage; Anxiety; Ontology; Existentialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages xlvi) and index.
Table of contents: title: Being and courage. Courage and fortitude : from Plato to Thomas Aquinas ; Courage and wisdom : the Stoics ; Courage and self-affirmation : Spinoza ; Courage and life : Nietzsche; title: Being, nonbeing, and anxiety. An ontology of anxiety ; Types of anxiety; title: Pathological anxiety, vitality, and courage. The nature of pathological anxiety ; Anxiety, religion, and medicine ; Vitality and courage; title: Courage and participation (the courage to be as a part). Being, individualization, and participation ; Collectivist and semicollectivist manifestations of the courage to be as a part ; Neocollectivist manifestations of the courage to be as a part ; The courage to be as a part in democratic conformism; title: Courage and individualization (the courage to be as oneself). The rise of modern individualism and the courage to be as oneself ; The Romantic and Naturalistic forms of the courage to be as oneself ; Existentialist forms of the courage to be as oneself ; Existentialism today and the courage of despair; title: Courage and transcendence (the courage to accept acceptance). The power of being as source of the courage to be ; The courage to be as the key to being-itself.