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Ep. 247: Aristotle on Rhetoric and Emotions (Part Two)

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Anger Is the First Word of the Iliad

Anger is the first word of the iliad, so what's the word for anger? Is it manon? And no, it's thumas, or it sounded something like thumas. So if i think about the one that leaps to mind are cases where i get angry, but there doesn't seem to be a person involved. In the best it could be is that it's belittling. By analogy, like, i want to throw my computer through the window. But the question is whether frustration is reducible to status injury,. It's like when a xerxes has the sea whipped because he can't cross it.

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