Transforming Anger into Compassion with Allison Aitken
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Anger Is a Moral Vice, but It's Just Bad for Our Welfare
In buddhism, what we're reading about so frequently is an attempt to preserve the sense of self. How can anger close us off from happiness and joy? Shani deva sets out to convince hi readers that anger is not good in either of these ways. A common line of thought when we're talking about the possible utility of anger is it's a moral sentiment that signals to us that we are encountering some kind of moral wrong. And this idea is really prominent in the western intellectual tradition. Traces back to aristotle's view that the passions enable one to perceive moral value where passions are what we ordinarily think of as emotions.
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