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    It is not the case that The person of virtue is one who strives to extirpate anger in all its forms.

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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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    • All forms of anger are inconsistent with the moral life.
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