Rethinking Anger as a Desire for Payback: A Modified Thomistic View

This essay takes a fresh approach to a traditional Western philosophical account of anger, according to which anger is best defined as a desire for payback, namely, a desire to make an offender pay a price, in the currency of unwanted pain, for the pain he caused someone else. The essay focuses more...

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Authors: Rippentrop Schnell, Jan (Author) ; Cates, Diana Fritz (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2019]
In: Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 11
Further subjects:B Anger
B Payback
B equal human dignity
B Aquinas
B Virtue
B Emotion
B Religious Ethics
B Moral Psychology
B Vengeance
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