The Concept of Anxiety
The Concept of Anxiety (): "A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin", is a philosophical work written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1844. The original 1944 English translation by Walter Lowrie (now out of print), had the title The Concept of Dread. "The Concept of Anxiety" was dedicated "to the late professor Poul Martin Møller". He used the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis (which, according to Kierkegaard scholar Josiah Thompson, is the Latin transcription for "the Watchman" of Copenhagen) for "The Concept of Anxiety".
Anne Conway (philosopher)
The text itself was probably written in 1677 and shows the influence of Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont.
The text was first published in Latin translation by van Helmont in Amsterdam in 1690 as "Principia philosophiae antiquissimae et recentissimae". An English edition appeared in 1692. The "Principles" develops Conway's monistic view of the world as created from one substance. Conway is critical of the Cartesian idea that bodies are constituted of dead matter, of Henry More's concept of the soul in his "Antidote Against Atheism," and of dualist theories of the relationship between the body and spirit.