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Taming anger : the Hellenic approach to the limitations of reason / Kostas Kalimtzis.
LIBRA BF575.A5 K34 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalimtzis, Kostas, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anger--Philosophy.
- Anger.
- Anger--Greece--History.
- Reason.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- History.
- Philosophy.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 187 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bristol Classical Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- 1 The Homeric Framework 5
- A logical kernel for understanding anger 5
- The preconditions to acting well 11
- The problems of the thumos 11
- The Homeric quandary 15
- Thumos, friendship, and the limits to anger 17
- 2 The Search to bring Logos to Anger 23
- The three sources for the study of anger 23
- Heraclitus and the paradoxes of anger 25
- Importing Pythagorean measure 27
- 3 Anger: The Guardian of Justice and Protector of Injustice 33
- Justice as the measure for anger 33
- The function of thumos 34
- The guardian within 38
- Just and unjust functions of anger 40
- Anger: the brash defender of injustice 43
- Alazoneia: the braggart weapons of anger 45
- 4 Nurturing and Educating Anger 49
- The meaning of praos 49
- In nurturing anger, reason is but number three 54
- The possibility of sensuous ethical knowledge in anger 57
- Plato's advances towards the understanding of anger 66
- 5 Aristotle on the Causes of Anger 73
- A dramatically new approach to the passions 73
- The difference between emotion and passion 76
- The causes of anger 77
- The pain of anger: three types of slighting 86
- The triggers of anger 89
- The logos in the matter 93
- Counterargument: where there is anger there is reason 94
- Can one be angry at the powerful? It's a matter of appearance 97
- 6 Making Anger into a Virtue 103
- Praotes: a Hellenic ideal 103
- The virtue of anger 103
- The conditions that anger satisfies as a virtue 105
- Changing the habit 115
- An approximation method for taming anger 117
- Friendship and the standard that determines anger's mean 122
- 7 From Anger to Hatred 125
- The emergence of hatred from anger 125
- The pleasure of hatred and its consequences: the case of Philoktetes 127
- Overcoming the logos of hatred with friendship 129
- 8 The Wrath of God: Onward to the Past 135
- The backward march to a 'new' framework for anger 135
- The Stoic transformation of the Hellenic framework 136
- Eetooling honour to achieve indifference 138
- Philo and the wrath of God 141
- The Church Fathers and the new anger culture 143
- The past as present 148.
- ISBN:
- 9780715640791
- 0715640798
- OCLC:
- 751665889
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