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This paper covers Aristotle's view on anger, as discussed in the Nicomachean Ethics. The paper poses the question of whether Aristotle's view on the topic is realistic, or if, given the mores of certain societies, people don't have much control over the way they react to their anger.
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all men strive to be good and virtuous. When it comes to emotions such as anger, for example, goodness can be gained here, as well, as most people can make
the right choice in terms of how to deal with their anger. It isnt the anger itself that is at issue, Aristotle claimed, so much as the way it is
reacted to that determines a persons virtue. But is this true? Do we have the power to choose a positive response to our anger? Or is our anger so all-encompassing
that its difficult to be positive? The first thing to consider in the above argument is Aristotles definition of and reasoning for
anger. In Book II of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle notes that the soul boasts three factors; passions, faculties and states of character (Aristotle). By faculties, Aristotle means "the things in virtue
of which we are said to be capable of feeling (such as) becoming angry or feeling pity . . ." (Aristotle). By "character," Aristotle refers to the things that are
done in terms of how we behave in reference to passions (Aristotle). And by passions, Aristotle refers to the uncontrollable, i.e., appetite, anger, fear, envy, joy, hatred and pity (Aristotle).
Aristotles contention is that we are all prone to anger - it is one of the "passions" that makes up our
souls. We feel anger and fear without choice, Aristotle believes, and because it is a passion, we dont have much control over the actual fact of our anger (Aristotle). However,
it is also his contention that what makes us virtuous is not so much the fact that we anger but how we respond to the anger and direct it (Aristotle).
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