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Taming Anger: The Hellenic Approach to the Limitations of Reason

by Kostas Kalimtzis
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781472504432
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: GBP 38.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 286 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient / Greece, and Ancient & Classical

From Homer to Aristotle, understanding anger and harnessing its power was at the core of Hellenic civilization. Homer created the framework for philosophical inquiries into anger, one that persisted until it was overturned by Stoicism and Christianity. Plato saw anger as the guardian of justice and Aristotle conceived of it as bound to friendship. Yet both showed that anger can become a guardian of injustice and a defender of our psychological abnormalities. Plato claimed that reason is a tertiary factor in controlling anger and Aristotle argued that non-cognitive powers can issue commands for anger's arousal - findings that shed light as to why cognitive therapeutic approaches often prove to be ineffective. Both proposed nurturing the thumos, the receptacle of anger and the seat of self-esteem. Aristotle's view of public anger as an early warning sign of social dissolution continues to be relevant to this day. In this carefully argued study, Kostas Kalimtzis examines the theories of anger in the context of the ancient world with an eye to their implications for the modern predicament.

Kalimtzis, Kostas: - Kostas Kalimtzis is Honorary Research Associate at the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and Lecturer in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Arcadia Center for Hellenic, Mediterranean and Balkan Studies and Research, Athens, Greece. He is the author of Aristotle on Political Enmity and Disease: An Inquiry into Stasis (2000) and Taming Anger (Bloomsbury 2012).

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