
Ep. 247: Aristotle on Rhetoric and Emotions (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Are You Angry?
Mesos is the greek word for hate, but i don't know enough about mesos to say whether that actually is what we would say hate is. For aristotle, he says people still get more angry at those who belittle them if they do so in the presence of five sorts of people. This also bears on this question of what the scope of anger is and whether it includes justice, or feelings of justice, or injustice. Forgetfulness, even of names, for example, is also something that produces anger, despite being about something so slight.
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