Michel de Montaigne, Essays - On Fear - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the Renaissance-era philosopher, critic, and essayist Michel De Montaigne's work Essays, specifically his essay On Fear (De la Peur), in which he discusses that emotion, noting that he isn't a natural scientist, so that he won't be investigating the causes of fear, but taking a more phenomenological attitude towards the emotion. He notes that fear can take our judgement away or astray, and admits that what he fears the most is fear itself. He also discusses a number of characteristic effects of fear, which include flight, fight, and freezing, or even dying.

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