Aristotle's View On Fear

During this week’s reading I found the topic of fear to be quite interesting. According to Aristotle fear may be defined as a pain or disturbance due to a mental picture of some destructive or painful evil in the future. This definition is directed as following that fear is caused by whatever we feel has great power of destroying or of harming us in ways that tend to cause us great pain. I found it quite interesting that Aristotle used death as something we are not troubled because it is not close at hand. I would agree that most people don’t fear death when they are young because they don’t view it as imminent as those who are older do. I do agree with Aristotle when he says, “Of those we have wronged, and of our enemies or rivals, it is not