Anxious Mind - An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of AnxietyPevná vazba
Anxious Mind - An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of AnxietyPevná vazba An empirically informed, philosophical account of the nature of anxiety and its value for agency, virtue, and…
Specifikacia Anxious Mind - An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of AnxietyPevná vazba
Anxious Mind - An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of AnxietyPevná vazba
An empirically informed, philosophical account of the nature of anxiety and its value for agency, virtue, and decision making.In The Anxious Mind, Charlie Kurth offers a philosophical account of anxiety in its various forms, investigating its nature and arguing for its value in agency, virtue, and decision making. But Kurth points to anxiety's positive effects: enhancing performance, facilitating social interaction, and even contributing to moral thought and action.Kurth argues that an empirically informed philosophical account of anxiety can help us understand the nature and value of emotions, and he offers just such an account. Folk wisdom tells us that anxiety is unpleasant and painful, and scholarly research seems to provide empirical and philosophical confirmation of this.
He develops a model of anxiety as a bio-cognitive emotion--anxiety is an