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    Controlling intense anger rather than its unfettered expr... — Carmelics
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    Controlling intense anger rather than its unfettered expression is closer to what a good life requires.

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    • Though anger may sometimes be enabling in motivating constructive solutions to personal or political problems, its indiscriminate expression is more likely to be disabling, both for those expressing it and for those around them.
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    • 1.Aristotle's doctrine of the mean holds that the virtuous person feels anger of the right intensity, at the right target, at the right time—not merely controlled anger.
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    • 2.A life that systematically suppresses appropriate anger fails the Aristotelian standard of eudaimonia, which requires emotional responses calibrated to genuine moral injuries.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'unfettered expression' with 'intense anger,' obscuring that righteous anger proportionate to wrongdoing is itself a constitutive feature of moral character.
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    • 1.Audre Lorde and bell hooks argue that anger at injustice, when fully expressed rather than controlled, serves as a necessary epistemic and political tool for oppressed groups.
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    • 2.Prescribing anger-control as universally closer to the good life imposes a norm that historically silences those whose intense anger constitutes legitimate moral testimony against systemic wrongs.
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    Nietzsche’s view suggests the further idea that even episodic angry emotions may be a sign of moral infirmity, insofar as such emotions concede power to others by revealing one’s vulnerability to injury. But the truly noble or strong are thought to have, in some sense, no such vulnerabilities. Second, some recent popular views suggest that the uninhibited expression of anger and rage is a good thing, insofar as such venting is cathartic. But on consequentialist grounds alone it seems clear that controlling intense anger rather than its unfettered expression is closer to what a good life requir...

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