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Taming Anger - The Hellenic Approach to the Limitations of Reason (Hardcover)
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Taming Anger - The Hellenic Approach to the Limitations of Reason (Hardcover)
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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.
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