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The person of virtue is one who strives to extirpate ange... — Carmelics

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The person of virtue is one who strives to extirpate anger in all its forms.

Forgiveness & Mercy

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All forms of anger are inconsistent with the moral life.
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1.P.F. Strawson's 'reactive attitudes' account holds that resentment and indignation are constitutive of holding others morally responsible.
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2.A being incapable of anger at wrongdoing has exited the participant stance entirely, treating persons as objects rather than moral agents.
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3.Extirpating anger therefore undermines the interpersonal moral framework within which virtue itself is intelligible.
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1.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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2.The person who feels no anger at genuine injustice lacks the moral sensitivity that virtue requires, exhibiting a deficiency Aristotle calls 'anorgesia'.
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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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