Sentence:  Accordingly we may speak of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley 's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley 's `` Invictus '' , and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same <WSD>attitude</WSD> or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways