"The Courage To Be." (1952) | | Edited, Abridged and Expanded by Richard Schwartz | | ..... | | "There are no valid arguments for the existence of God, but there are acts of courage in which we affirm the power of being, whether we know it or not." |
The theme of Tillich's book, The Courage to Be, is one of "self-affirmation despite of the threat of non-Being," dread being what Tillich calls anxiety, which differs from fear, as fear has an object to overcome, where as anxiety does not. A theme previously taken up by Soren Kiergaard and later contemporary German philosophers, Schelling and Heidegger. Walter Kaufmann, in his Discovering The Mind, Vol II, relates:Original Location: http://www.escapefromwatchtower.com/tilground.html |