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...Glen Pettigrove [email protected] Cherry Myisha , The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle . New York : Oxford University Press , 2021 . xv + 203 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 From Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth...

... and less controversial case for response-dependence about the funny. In part 2, it shows the tight analogy between anger and amusement in developing the harder and more controversial case for response-dependence about a kind of blameworthiness (and so response-dependence about a kind of responsibility...

...Manuel Vargas The apologist for anger should be unmoved. The fact that expressions of some attitude can distort a practice is unconvincing evidence for the claim that we are better off without that type of attitude. When people are in love, they misrepresent features of the situation. Loving...

...). In a footnote, Finkel- stein entertains the following objection to (c): Imagine that you occasionally express your unconscious anger toward your sister by speaking in a peculiar, clipped tone of voice. One day, while speaking in this tone of voice, you say, “My therapist tells me...

... out a card, but it is a description Campbell would contest. Contrary to Lynne McFall, who defends bitterness as an appro- priate response to the failure of those at whom one is legitimately angry to respond appropriately to that anger, Campbell draws attention to how the ascription...

... of anger about a moderate number of injuries and insults on a moderate amount of occasions toward a moderate number of people for a moderate length of time” (43). Curzer notes that it has been objected that “the right objects” cannot be expressed quantitatively. Not so, he argues. Feeling fear, say, toward...

..., such as my love for my wife or my enduring anger 132 BOOK REVIEWS at you for publicly embarrassing me last week. Rather, he claims, such “emo- tional attitudes,” as we might call them, comprise a variety of particular epi- sodes...

... —of hot white women.) Srinivasan relates this sexual rage to the generalized anger of white Trumpists: “In both cases, the anger is ostensibly about inequality, but in reality it is often about the threatened loss of male privilege” [116].) So what’s the solution? Srinivasan insightfully distinguishes...

... and resolution of a single emotion. One emotion often gives way to another: puzzlement to curiosity, curiosity to foreboding, foreboding to horror, horror to grief—or perhaps instead to anger, which gives way to resentment, and so on. Unlike a chain of causation, however, a sequence of emotions has...

... the reactive/nonreactive line. In particular, I do not wish to rule out that some forms of anger should be counted as reactive attitudes on the best account of how to draw this line. Nor do I wish to deny that gratitude and (some forms of) admiration should be so counted; like resentment, indignation...

... they are. Echeñique is certainly correct that Aristotle's virtues and vices of character are not restricted to the domain of other-regarding behavior, and that his treatments of voluntariness display no preoccupation with desert, fairness, or such paradigmatic Strawsonian reactive attitudes as anger or resentment. I...

... of emotion Wollheim has characterized. These are not our characteristic occurrent emotions but rather some underlying dispositions that erupt now and then and may congeal, even crystallize, over a lifetime. One thinks of Ulysses’s anger, Oedipus’s fear, of terror and romantic love in general...

...- vince us that this element can be shorn of its tendency to destructive anger and aggressiveness without nullifying its proper role as the raw material from which courage is made? 95 BOOK REVIEWS These are intriguing questions...

... wife or my enduring anger 132 ...

... evidence for religious matters. Though it is commonplace to acknowledge the way cer- tain passions—intense anger, jealousy, and envy, for example—can cause rea- soning to go off the rails, this fact is seldom acknowledged by evidentialists. Helm’s discussion, however, focuses mainly on the ways...

..., of being in danger) partly constitutive of the passions (anger, fear) are cases of evaluative phantasia as she has analyzed it in part 1. To the objection that the passions of humans, at least, involve evaluative thoughts , Moss, on the basis of slender but suggestive evidence, argues that Aristotle has...

...” ( epieikeia ), “discernment” ( gnōmē ), and “sympathetic consideration” ( sungnōmē ). Yet these are qualities of the understanding, and need to have grown out of the soil of feeling. She notes that few of the passions are actually defined in terms of desire. (Exceptions in the Rhetoric are anger and love...

... targeted to alleviate anger and resentment and to cultivate patience. Yet the no-self view is by no means the most widely cited justification for generosity. Buddhist authors generally motivate ethics by appealing not to no-self but to karma and the benefits of advancement on the path to liberation...

... as the one that operates in the actual situation (in which Matthew is not over- whelmed with guilt) or is it a different one? In general, whenever reflection on what one has reason to do triggers fear, panic, anxiety, anger, or com- pulsive desires that interfere to some degree with an agent’s self...

... on it in depth. Sobel states the objection as follows: “It is quite broadly intuitive that all agents have significant reason to avoid [certain] seriously nasty actions [such as harming a child out of anger], and, since subjectivism cannot vindicate this strong and widely shared intuition, this is a strong...