How Do You Conduct Your Conversations?

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"We do have to have some way of hanging on to our principles," he says. How should one conduct oneself? "You still want to have those conversations, important to be provocative in the good sense." He thinks teaching people lessons doesn't work out that well anyway.

Philosopher Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about anger. Is anger something we should vilify and strive to eradicate in ourselves? Or should we accept it as a necessary and appropriate human emotion? Callard takes a fresh look at anger and has much to say about jealousy, desire, and forgiveness as well.