Samir Chopra, the author of Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide, argues anxiety is a necessary part of being human. | Getty Images Anxiety is one of those words that means a hundred different things depending on who’s using it. A clinical disorder. A mood. A personality trait. A vague feeling that you don’t understand but desperately want to resist. What if some forms of anxiety are more like a signal telling you something deeply true about yourself and the world? Samir Chopra is a philosopher and the author of Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide. His argument is that anxiety isn’t just a malf...

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