Philosophy of risk: Chronicles of modernity

Abstract

Throughout this essay, the risk and its function in our daily life are in depth examined from various perspectives, not only linked to a threatening nature but as a strategy of dissuasion to blurs the moral boundaries between decision and its consequences. The larger the rationale, greater the sentiment of unprotection. The thesis of this paper is that in a postmodern society, enrooted in the hegemony of insurances as mediator of human’s relationships, the risk (as a stereotype of fear) becomes in a crucial factor to enhance the existent form of productions. Everybody of us frights to physical displacement because it leaves us beyond our home certainty. The nomads groups that million years ago explored the territory have not experienced panic to uncertainty, the fear for the diversity started with sedentary civilization and the creation of walls which characterize the life in greatest cities.