Piegiacomo Severini, Italy
Dear Desh [Subba], sorry for my very late answer, I don't know why I don't receive Linkedin updates anymore. By the way, my best wishes for this new year!
Everything is still quite new, in both my work and my daily life, yet I'm so motivated and I'm also learning a lot of new things. I have to be patient and wait for the time when I'll know enough for publishing something new. In the meanwhile, I'm slowly finding my Japanese routine, which is great. Hope you're doing well too.
Regarding your book, in these first days of the year I had some free days and so I read your book [Fearmorphosis (I opened Linkedin exactly for writing to you)]. I have to say that to me this is the most consistent book from you, among the ones that you sent to me. Even though it is less extensive than the others (this is a good thing to me, because willing to speak of a too wide topic is always dangerous), finally you present some good argumentations and precise analysis, which justify your ideas and assumptions, while going on with creating this new vocabulary linked to Fearism and a fear-based bias. I think this is the most philosophically rigorous text you have written and I suggest to keep going on with this method even for your future research: in this way, people can better understand and dialogue with your ideas/writings.
Regarding your thesis in the book, I agree with you that fear is a good key for reading the examples that you propose/analyse and I also agree that human existence is not absurd at all. Sadly, I don't have enough time for analysing all the points more in detail.
I have two questions for you.
The first one, is regarding B. Maria Kumar article: do you think it describes your book?
It is a good and informative article, but I feel that he starts from your book for expressing his ideas on freedom rather than simply presenting your book. For example, it is my understanding that the part in which the human being can regain freedom if he/she moves from a fear-centered perspective to a fearless perspective is not present in your book (maybe you just mention this possibility, but I can't find a part where you analyse this explicitly and extensively). Even more, I think that what B. Maria Kumar says somehow rows against your foundamental belief that "fear precedes existence": if we were born free and fear enslaved us afterwards, as B. Maria Kumar is saying, this means that freedom preceeds fear chronologically... But being free means existing, so we come back to the idea that existence precedes fear (rather than yours "fear precedes existence").
Besides this, my second question/point is linked to the previous one: why you didn't develop a fearlessness theory/process out of this appealing analysis of fearmorphism?
I know that professor Fisher wrote something about "fearlessness", but I'm interested in your reinterpretation and in your way of landing to fearlessness after having analysed fear. I need a "pars construens" after the "pars destruens" that reread many philosophers and topics in your previous books. Let's pretend that you have convinced everyone that fear is the power that rules existence: now I'd like you to tell us how we can follow such path for living a better existence (through fearlessness, I guess).
For the rest, I agree basically with B. Maria Kumar's article and probably with you, if you're suggesting that we were born free and it's all about regaining our freedom, or our capability of acting freely and thus living a better existence. Maybe, then, "fear precedes existence" is not fully correct and we should better say that for various natural mechanisms fear tends to influence (or even rule) existence (as we can argue from B. Maria Kumar's article); if this is your aim and all your research on fear aims at promoting a fearless existence that can regain its original freedom, then you have me by your side (and my research really goes in a similar direction).
Note: B. Maria Kumar wrote an article " Opinion: Brewing freedom from fear" in Telangana Today newspaper on 1 December, 2023 about Fearmorphosis book. Author opines his arguments on the basis of that book and article.
Piergiacomo Severini is from Italy. He is Post-doc research Fellow at University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara.
Comments
Thank you very much, Piergiacomo Severinin, for your attention and questions regarding the book and article.
Your first question is about my fundamental belief. I think his writing is not against my fundamental beliefs. Another point, it is his opinion, he is free to express his understanding. His expression as I found goes to Fear Precedes Essence. Existence Precedes Essence, Existence Precedes Fear and Fear Precedes Essence has fundamental differences. Regarding the Essence, Existence directly doesn't step to Essence, it is my argument. Just Existence of human beings doesn't activate itself. To activate it, it needs some mechanisms, like the brain, consciousness and knowledge. It is consistently found in Fear Precedes Essence. In the quote, Existence is existed invisibly. In Existence Precedes Essence, the brain, consciousness and knowledge is absent. This quote is questioned by babies and mad people. Why does baby and mad don't precedes essence? That's why B. Maria has written that Fear Precedes Essence is more advanced than Existence Precedes Essence in his another article "Opinion: Fear, thy name is human!" that was published on 22 December, 2023 in Telangana Today; which link I sent to you.
Regarding your second question,
I think Philosophy of Fearism denotes Fearlessness too. Philosophy of Fearism means it describes the beginning of fear to the end of fear. It is a life of fear. It is born, grows and terminates at one point. Between birth and death, it plays a role in family, society and nation. Sometimes it structures society and nation, sometimes destroyed. Sometimes it is moral and sometimes immoral. Sometimes it goes up and sometimes goes down. Therefore, I said, Man is a Fear Sisyphus and Fear itself is a Sisyphus. I appreciate your curiosity and support.
https://telanganatoday.com/opinion-brewing-freedom-from-fear