these types of people be? One kind of difference is this: fear disconcerts some people because they lack a sufficiently strong countervailing concern. For example, part of Socrates’ ability to face death with equanimity was that he feared something else (namely the betrayal of his moral self) even more. And a parent may master his fear and go into a burning house largely because he fears something else more than the danger to himself—the death of his children. In such cases the concern for moral