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The Anxious Mind - An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety (Hardcover)
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The Anxious Mind - An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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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. Folk wisdom
tells us that anxiety is unpleasant and painful, and scholarly
research seems to provide empirical and philosophical confirmation
of this. 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. He develops a model of anxiety as a bio-cognitive
emotion-anxiety is an aversive emotional response to uncertainty
about threats or challenges-and shows that this model captures the
diversity in the types of anxiety we experience. Building on this,
he considers a range of issues in moral psychology and ethical
theory. He explores the ways in which anxiety can be valuable,
arguing that anxiety can be a fitting response and that it
undergirds an important form of moral concern. He considers
anxiety's role in deliberation and decision making, using the
examples of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the abolitionist John
Woolman to show that anxiety can be a mechanism of moral progress.
Drawing on insights from psychiatry and clinical psychology, Kurth
argues that we can cultivate anxiety so that we are better able to
experience it at the right time and in the right way.
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