"To Philosophize Is To Learn How To Die"
In reading Critchley’s article, “To Philosophize Is To Learn How To Die,” I found many ideas that were extremely interesting to me and stood out to me. Critchley brings up a good point about fear followed by another about anxiety which are two feelings that the world has felt greatly throughout the past six months, so we are all no stranger to them. Through referring to Aristotle’s idea that, “ Fear is our reaction to an actual threat in the world,” Critchley shows us that fear is caused by an actual threat, and typically when someone does not know what is to come from something going on, they will experience fear. Anxiety is more complicated than fear. Anxiety, defined by Critchley, is, “a state in which the particular facts of the world recede from view.” To me anxiety is that feeling of being “on-edge”; it is that uncontrollable feeling of worry along with intrusive thoughts and increased irritability and restlessness. Critchley states that there has been a fear of getting the