Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics bk. 4 | The Virtue of Mildness/Right Anger

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics bk. 4 | The Virtue of Mildness/Right Anger | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Mildness (also known as Good Temper and Gentleness), and a number of different vices of excess and deficiency concerned with Anger.
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@GregoryBSadler 11 жыл бұрын

A Core Concept video I shot some time ago, and didn't get around to releasing -- this one has to do with Aristotle's views on the morality of anger, calmness, forgiveness, grudge-holding, and so on. . .

@GregoryBSadler 11 жыл бұрын

Glad the video was useful for you -- I find Aristotle's approach very helpful myself. You're right -- part of dealing with one's own anger is dealing with other people's failings as well as one's own

@Bagman451 11 жыл бұрын

I'll be sharing the video with friends! Man, this was actually sort of helpful in pinpointing some inefficient behavior on my part in terms of the right length of time; like a mixture of harsh and a more deliberate rageful. There are sometimes people who won't give redress to grievances -- continually making the same mistake -- and the argument perpetually gets worse as the other person becomes defensive. Either shift one's course of action, or leave it be for your health and theirs, Haha.

@GregoryBSadler 11 жыл бұрын

More of an Augustinian position there than Aristotelian, which is what this video is about.

@GregoryBSadler 11 жыл бұрын

Well, thumos and orge are not precisely the same thing in Aristotle, though determining just where they do intersect or coincide in which discussions is tricky (and something I'm writing about). As it turns out, I'm also working on a paper at present precisely on the role anger can -- and often does have to -- play in matters of justice from an Aristotelian viewpoint -- I'll be giving it at the SAGP conference at Fordham next month (and I'll upload a copy in Academia.edu)

@BadboyAnarchy 11 жыл бұрын

Ah sorry, I have a habit of responding to comments that catch my eye, whether or not they're directed at me... I also haven't watched the video yet sorry, I will now. Thankyou for this channel btw, you do great videos.

@GregoryBSadler 11 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Not a major problem -- as I was just saying in a response to one of Bagman451's comments, I probably ought to shoot more videos about this sort of stuff dealing with anger. One of the areas I work in is reconstructing various philosophers', theologians' (and a few other people, e.g. in literature, psychology, etc.) theories of anger -- I've been writing on it for some time, and occasionally giving talks. I probably ought to create some more videos about it

@neiljaucian5854 2 жыл бұрын

Very useful sir. Thank you for this video. 👌

@GregoryBSadler 2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome - glad it's helpful

@GregoryBSadler 11 жыл бұрын

No, your comments aren't distracting -- they're part of the conversation about the video, the text and thinker, and the topics -- all that makes KZfaq interactive. I probably should consider shooting some more videos about these anger-related issues, seeing as how it's one of the areas in which I do work -- largely on various philosophers' and theologians' conceptions of anger and related issues. I have shot a few, specifically on Aristotle's theory -- you can find them in my Talks playlist

@GregoryBSadler 11 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! good example of an unreasonable reason for being angry there

@BadboyAnarchy 11 жыл бұрын

"Or is it selfish to expect others to live up to potentials they may not regard in the manner you do..." Anger can be disordered, and it can be inordinate. Basically... the 'validity' of one's anger should be seen and weighted in the greater moral context of what is owed to God. Which can be hard to do given fallen intellect and desire.

@GregoryBSadler 11 жыл бұрын

Well, it might be selfish one some deeper level to expect people to live up to their potential -- if one wants them to do so so as to make things easier for oneself. In that case, that likely would be "anger" one feels -- in the sense Aristotle describes, where one feels that the other has wronged them in some way, on some level. If it's a matter of feeling bad over the fact that they are keeping themselves from some goods by not developing their potential, that's more being frustrated, no?

@Bagman451 11 жыл бұрын

Topics like these really do have a wealth to explore, do you plan on doing anymore videos -- maybe a Chalk and Talk -- that opens up a discussion with how these might be applied, or further fleshed out? For example, couldn't slavish people direct their anger towards the outrage other people show? I imagine someone saying, "It's not that big of a deal! Gosh!", when it really might be. Also, second question, are these comments distracting to viewers -- or you -- to where PM's may be better?

@BadboyAnarchy 11 жыл бұрын

Anger has a lot to do with justice. Justice is the desire to appropriate to each man (OR God) what he deserves. If you are angry at someone for not fulfilling their potential, the anger is the desire to correct the injustice of... a man not giving to God the fulfillment of their talents. Of course, man is fallen thus so is his reasoning and desires... so a man can be unreasonably angry that say for example, his wife won't let him cheat on her.