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The Courage to Be

What is courage, if it means affirming yourself in spite of everything that tends to stop you?

At a glance

Author
Paul Tillich

Why read it

  • You will see courage as saying yes to your own life despite whatever threatens it, not only as bravery in battle
  • You will learn to name existential anxiety, the kind given with human existence itself, rather than blaming it on a passing event
  • You will weigh two ways of affirming yourself, as an individual set apart from the world or as part of a group

Who it is for

  • A reader facing anxiety about death, meaning or a big choice
  • A student of philosophy or theology meeting existentialism
  • Someone torn between fitting in and being themselves

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. CHAPTER 1. Being and Courage
  3. COURAGE AND FORTITUDE: FROM PLATO TO THOMAS AQUINAS
  4. COURAGE AND WISDOM: THE STOICS
  5. COURAGE AND SELF-AFFIRMATION: SPINOZA
  6. COURAGE AND LIFE: NIETZSCHE
  7. CHAPTER 2. Being, Nonbeing, and Anxiety
  8. AN ONTOLOGY OF ANXIETY
  9. TYPES OF ANXIETY
  10. PERIODS OF ANXIETY
  11. CHAPTER 3. Pathological Anxiety, Vitality, and Courage
  12. THE NATURE OF PATHOLOGICAL ANXIETY
  13. ANXIETY, RELIGION, AND MEDICINE
  14. VITALITY AND COURAGE
  15. CHAPTER 4. Courage and Participation
  16. [THE COURAGE TO BE AS A PART]
  17. BEING, INDIVIDUALIZATION, AND PARTICIPATION
  18. COLLECTIVIST AND SEMICOLLECTIVIST MANIFESTATIONS OF THE COURAGE TO BE AS A PART
  19. NEOCOLLECTIVIST MANIFESTATIONS OF THE COURAGE TO BE AS A PART
  20. THE COURAGE TO BE AS A PART IN DEMOCRATIC CONFORMISM
  21. CHAPTER 5. Courage and Individualizatton
  22. [THE COURAGE TO BE AS ONESELF]
  23. THE RISE OF MODERN INDIVIDUALISM AND THE COURAGE TO BE AS ONESELF
  24. THE ROMANTIC AND NATURALISTIC FORMS OF THE COURAGE TO BE AS ONESELF
  25. EXISTENTIALIST FORMS OF THE COURAGE TO BE AS ONESELF
  26. EXISTENTIALISM TODAY AND THE COURAGE OF DESPAIR
  27. CHAPTER 6. Courage and Transcendence
  28. [THE COURAGE TO ACCEPT ACCEPTANCE]
  29. THE POWER OF BEING AS SOURCE OF THE COURAGE TO BE
  30. THE COURAGE TO BE AS THE KEY TO BEING-ITSELF
  31. THE DWIGHT HARRINGTON TERRY FOUNDATION LECTURES ON RELIGION IN THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY

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