Philosophy of Fear: A Move to Overcoming Negative Fear

This book is a philosophical manual developed to aid human persons in overcoming their imposed limitations brought about by fear. The author recognizes two categories of fear( positive and negative) and blamed all forms of negative fear activities on human persons to negative category of fear, while he attributes all aspects of positive development to positive fear. The author argues further that since fear is fundamental to all beings, it ought to be given its philosophical brand name,and that is, philosophy of fear or fearism. He believes that fearism as a school of thought, will offer an expanding opportunities into the study of fear and its related challenges.

In suggesting a workable methodology to the solution to fear problems, the author adopted unification-complementary approach,where fear and fearless(the opposites) are investigated in a unified and complementary manner in order to have a complete knowledge about fear. He uses love-courage as the method for decision making within the framework of fearism.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Bassey Eneyo was born in Ekpri Ikot Eyo Edem in Akpabuyo LGA of Cross River State, Nigeria. He is a theologian and a philosopher who is determined to translate deep and critical philosophical thoughts into practical and problems solving mechanism. He holds a Dip. in Religious Studies, BA Philosophy and MA Philosophy from the prestigious University of Calabar, Calabar-Nigeria. He is of the opinion that unless opposites are taken into consideration, enquiry is incomplete. Thus, unification and complementarity are his philosophical paradigms.