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The Service Of The Emotions In The Moral Life | Professor Scott Cleveland

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The Power of Daring

Fear is the epitative movement away from a future but imminent threatening evil. Daring involves emotion toward an evil that's not apparently surmountable. We cannot be drawn to evil in itself for Aquinas. The passion of daring moves you toward confronting the threat rather than your appetite moving you away from it.

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