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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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