Questions of fear, anxiety and courage are in the foreground of existential analitic. They are analyzed in the context of the possibility of non-being, which appears at the core of the existence. Heidegger shows that existence is a drama played between being and non-being. In his answer, he insists that being can be properly understood only if considered as positivity, which doesn’t need any
... [Show full abstract] reason to be. Being is “to be” in itself. Radical phenomenology as developed by Michel Henry makes a step forward by pointing out that being is not able to prevail over non-being by itself, but in as much as it is given sense by the newborn life. Life, which is an absolute auto-affirmation, gives sense to the future and new being.
Key words: positivity of being, life, fear, courage, existential analytic, radical phenomenology