Title: Errors and Limitations of our Anger Evaluating WaysPublished by: Rowman and Littlefield
Release Date: January 2018
(The Errors and Limitations of our Anger Evaluating Ways)
Order BookIn this chapter I will give an account of how our judgments of anger often play out in different instances. While contemporary philosophers of emotion have provided us with check box guides like “fittingness” and “size” for evaluating anger, I will argue that these guides do not by themselves help us escape the tendency to mark or unmark the boxes selectively, inconsistently, and erroneously. If anger—particularly anger in a political context—can provide information and spark positive change or political destruction, then we have moral reasons to evaluate it properly. But can we? And what are the limitations and errors we often face when evaluating anger?
Errors and Limitations of our Anger Evaluating Ways