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The Hot-Cold Empathy Gap

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Anger Interacts With Reason

Decision theory is gol dependent, right? When we're in one state we have different goals than we do when we're in another. Both anger and fear are states where you are being driven by your emotions. Anger thumos seems to listen to reason to some extent, but to mishear it, as do hasty slaves who run out before they hear the whole of what one says,. And anger reasoning, as it were, that anything like this must be fought against, heats up, of course, straightway. Whereas appetites do not obey reason at all, and are therefore more disgraceful for the person who is unrestricted in respect of anger."

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