What is The Paradox of Horror? @CarneadesOfCyrene
What is The Paradox of Horror?  @CarneadesOfCyrene
Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Happy Halloween! This year we have a video explaining the paradox of horror, a paradox for why people seek out fiction that causes negative emotions like fear and sadness, including both Aristotle's and Hume's solutions to the paradox



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Information for this video gathered from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Collier-MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, and more!
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