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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Main Authors: Jan Rippentrop Schnell, Diana Fritz Cates
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-11-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/11/618