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    Aristotle's virtue ethics holds that anger felt at the ri... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The person of virtue is one who strives to extirpate anger in all its forms.

    Aristotle's virtue ethics holds that anger felt at the right time, toward the right person, and in the right degree is itself virtuous.

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    • 1.Virtue requires appropriate emotional responses; anger absent when injustice occurs indicates moral insensitivity or cowardice.
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    • 2.Aristotle's mean between extremes applies to anger: deficiency (never angry) and excess (always angry) are both vicious.
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    • 3.Well-calibrated anger motivates necessary corrective action and signals to others that wrongdoing matters morally.
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    • 1.Emotions arise from automatic neural processes; we cannot consciously control them to match abstract criteria of 'rightness'.
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    • 2.Virtue ethics typically locates virtue in stable character traits, not fleeting emotional episodes; anger is too volatile.
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    • 3.The criteria ('right time, person, degree') are inherently subjective and culturally variable, undermining virtue's universal aspirations.
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