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Transitional Anger

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2015

MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM
MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM*
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Abstract:

A close philosophical analysis of the emotion of anger will show that it is normatively irrational: in some cases, based on futile magical thinking, in others, based on defective values.

Keywords

moral psychologyangerretributionAristotleMartin Luther King
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Journal of the American Philosophical Association , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Spring 2015 , pp. 41 - 56
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Copyright © The Author 2015 

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