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 Taming Anger
The Hellenic Approach to the Limitations of Reason
From Homer to Aristotle, understanding anger and harnessing its power was at the core of Hellenic civilization. Homer created the framework for philosophical inquiries into anger, one that persisted until it was overturned by Stoicism and Christianity. Plato saw anger as the guardian of justice and Aristotle conceived of it as bound to friendship. Yet both showed that anger can become a guardian of injustice and a defender of our psychological abnormalities. Plato claimed that reason is a tertiary factor in controlling anger and Aristotle argued that non-cognitive powers can issue commands for anger’s arousal – findings that shed light as to why cognitive therapeutic approaches often prove to be ineffective. Both proposed nurturing the thumos, the receptacle of anger and the seat of self-esteem. Aristotle’s view of public anger as an early warning sign of social dissolution continues to be relevant to this day. In this carefully argued study, Kostas Kalimtzis examines the theories of anger in the context of the ancient world with an eye to their implications for the modern predicament.

Taming Anger The Hellenic Approach to the Limitations of Reason 1st Table of contents:

 1. The Homeric Framework
A logical kernel for understanding anger
The preconditions to acting well
The problems of the thumos
The Homeric quandary
Thumos, friendship, and the limits to anger
2. The Search to bring Logos to Anger
The three sources for the study of anger
Heraclitus and the paradoxes of anger
Importing Pythagorean measure
3. Anger: The Guardian of Justice and Protector of Injustice
Justice as the measure for anger
The function of thumos
The guardian within
Just and unjust functions of anger
Anger: the brash defender of injustice
Alazoneia: the braggart weapons of anger
4. Nurturing and Educating Anger
The meaning of praos
In nurturing anger, reason is but number three
The possibility of sensuous ethical knowledge in anger
Plato’s advances towards the understanding of anger
5. Aristotle on the Causes of Anger
A dramatically new approach to the passions
The difference between emotion and passion
The causes of anger
The pain of anger: three types of slighting
The triggers of anger
The logos in the matter
Counterargument: where there is anger there is reason
Can one be angry at the powerful? It’s a matter of appearance
6. Making Anger into a Virtue
Praotês: a Hellenic ideal
The virtue of anger
The conditions that anger satisfies as a virtue
Changing the habit
An approximation method for taming anger
Friendship and the standard that determines anger’s mean
7. From Anger to Hatred
The emergence of hatred from anger
The pleasure of hatred and its consequences: the case of Philoktetes
Overcoming the logos of hatred with friendship
8. The Wrath of God: Onward to the Past
The backward march to a ‘new’ framework for anger
The Stoic transformation of the Hellenic framework
Retooling honour to achieve indifference
Philo and the wrath of God
The Church Fathers and the new anger culture
The past as present
Afterword: The Forward-going, Backward-turning Path

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