Thanks for this. I think too often Aristotle is portrayed as a defender of anger. While he's not as categorically anti-anger as, say, most Stoic or Buddhist philosophers are, I think you do a good job of showing how rightly suspicious he is of it nevertheless.
I would suggest that it is 'reason' itself that seduces both itself and a sound practical rationality!
I guess anyone can suggest anything they like. But that definitely isn't how Aristotle sees it, and that's what this article and my talk is about
Thanks for this. I think too often Aristotle is portrayed as a defender of anger. While he's not as categorically anti-anger as, say, most Stoic or Buddhist philosophers are, I think you do a good job of showing how rightly suspicious he is of it nevertheless.
Yes, you wonder about what Aristotle Seneca is reading to give him such a strongly pro-anger foil to argue against!