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Ethical Episodes

World Without Anger

by Joel Marks

In my previous column about the legacy of Robert C. Solomon [in Issue 83] I offered an analysis of emotion as something that could be rational. But this was a pared-down kind of rationality, a merely logical type. The example I gave was that you might be angry because you believed that somebody had insulted you, and you naturally desired not to be insulted. But I also claimed that an emotion that was rational in this sense could still be irrational in an ethical sense.

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