thinking about performative phenomena that aren't so much fake-it-til-you-make-it as that faking it *is* making it, which i have the impulse to call autoveridical example in mind is if you can successfully falsify courage and act despite not feeling courageous, that *is* courage
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I had a whole argument and then I talked myself into thinking courage actually is an emotion, in that it's the thing that motivates/allows us to act in the presence of fear. It feels like...determination? elevation/transcendence? nobility? purpose? something in that ballpark
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If emotion is defined as a feeling that motivates an action, I think courage has to properly be called an emotion, one that acts in the presence of and in opposition to fear
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