Martha Nussbaum, "What Is Anger, and Why Should We Care?"

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"Although everyone is familiar with the damage anger can do in both personal and public life, people tend to think that it is necessary for the pursuit of justice. People who don't get angry when they are wronged seem weird to many people, lacking spine and self-respect. And isn't it servile not to react with anger to great injustice, whether toward oneself or toward others? On the other hand, recent years have seen three noble and successful freedom movements conducted in a spirit of non-anger: those of Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela -- surely people who stood up for their self-respect and that of others, and who did not acquiesce in injustice. My lecture argues that a close philosophical analysis of the emotion of anger can help us to see why it is fatally flawed from a normative viewpoint -- sometimes incoherent and sometimes based on bad values. In either case it is of dubious value in both life and the law. I'll present my general view, and then show its relevance to thinking well about the criminal law and about transformational justice."
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago Law School. This talk was recorded January 14, 2014 as part of the Chicago's Best Ideas lecture series.

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@Hume2012 5 жыл бұрын

Why are there so many ad hominem comments here? I have read Nussbaum, took a course with her, and read some of her work closely and critically. If one has an argument against what she says here, then it should be given, not stupid comments about accents and ignorant comments about her supposed haughtiness.

@roniquebreauxjordan8870 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you Professor.

@NesKimStyle 3 жыл бұрын

She is such an inspiration. Incredible thinker and use of literature in philosophy is done so well. A real genius.

@julesjules6244 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent quality . This is a good summary of Nussbaum's views on Anger. Thank you very much for uploading

@karla2helpyou 6 жыл бұрын

As the Yin incorporates a little of Yang so it is vice versa, Thank you Martha for being a poet of understanding the logos that we have in the Yang aspect of Emotions.

@ImWalnuts 5 жыл бұрын

Elite, thank you for sharing

@ariafraidaki2237 4 жыл бұрын

very erudite, thank you for sharing!

@alexanderherbertkurz 3 жыл бұрын

Aristotle's definition of anger 11:58

@josephsmyth832 4 жыл бұрын

I would love to hear the professor discuss the butterfly effect which has to do with chaos theory. Natural Law is the only true law which requires righteous anger. As above, so below, it cannot be prevented but only delayed. Debt ( negative) must and always is repaid ( positive)

@sofalvarez 5 жыл бұрын

Also, why think that anger excludes the possibility to think also about the pain and not just about the social status?

@sofalvarez 5 жыл бұрын

I don't think anger never comes with that wish to sympathize with others. And sometimes is a useful resource to communicate our own boundaries. And sometimes it works. Are there "types" of anger? ...

@jennyaskswhy Жыл бұрын

I subscribe to this philosophy

@amritsharma5373 2 жыл бұрын

Well, after watching the entire lecture, I have a query. What is she drinking at 56:25?

@4455matthew 7 жыл бұрын

Nietzsche's sublimation.

@user-fb1zg7je7e Жыл бұрын

Придите ко мне все труждающиеся и обременённые, и я успокою вас. Возьмите иго моё на себя и научитесь от Меня, что я кроток и смирен сердцем, и найдёте покой душам вашим, ибо иго моё благо, и бремя моё легко. Глубокое значение этого. Всё беспокойство только от несмирения. Если быть готовым ко всякому унижению, то какое спокойствие! И как легко! и научитесь от Меня, ибо я кроток и смирен, унижен сердцем. Будьте смиренны, и тогда только найдёте покой душам вашим.

@xs5986 Жыл бұрын

WRONG TOPIC NAME The lecture is not about anger but about revenge. Revenge is one of the action which may arise from anger. Anger is the emotion of pain and damage inflicted by others wrongfully and anger triggers action to correct it.

@4455matthew 7 жыл бұрын

this could be summed up: anger is not in your best interest, it is a flawed/irrational concept.

@johnmartin2813 6 жыл бұрын

Is it a concept?

@zacscicluna9830 6 жыл бұрын

I think my professor hates me.

@johnmartin2813 6 жыл бұрын

I wish somebody could have asked her about Christ's treatment of figs and pigs. The money-changers I can understand. I feel angry about them myself. But figs and pigs! What had they done?

@nursen2106 6 жыл бұрын

nothing. I thing there is a misunderstanding. sometimes it is helpful to have someone to talk to about questions like this, who is really into the genealogy of the new testament and it's relation to the old testament and so on. I would not be alble to solve this issue you have with this picture over youtube. also my skills are not that sophisticated so I could try it in a concise way. but I am sure there is someone where you live. even in sciences when you prefer. (stay with the key message when in doubt. it's hard but more distinct)

@johnmartin2813 6 жыл бұрын

+Nursen Nursen ... I get a lot of JWs coming to my door because I live near one of their 'Kingdom Halls', and I have asked them, but didn't really get a satisfactory reply.

@nursen2106 6 жыл бұрын

oh my god!!!! ;-D you need assistance for sure. avoid such people and also if you e.g. try to get in contact with a theologian or read a book than try first those that are not too tightly linked with an institution they feel obligated to (although e.g. David Steindl-Rast is and example of someone who is connected with an religious institution as monk and still detached. therefore sometimes attacked by very orthodox scenes of his own church. he is someone I appreciate for other reasons). I have found some persons to relate to here in europe in the german speaking regions. there approaches really did help me understand some issues I had with some texts, but most of the time, while they where explaining something else or somethng more general. not always the story I that was bothering me at that time. unfortunately I cannot give you any names or text to reed in english as those are german texts and professors. just take into account that pig's had a negativ connotation that didn't exclusively relate to the standing of pig's in judaism per se. as animals held to provide the roman legions there is a very political statement in this narrative. and if that relates to the very origin narrative to what really happened there or an additional political message woven into the text is hard to tell. that is why I would rather suggest, when in doubt, measure the message of the new testament with the core message that is given in the sermon of the mount and in the key scenes in the garden of Gethsemane, on the cross.... no matter how hard that might seem in context of one's own life

@contenau22 5 жыл бұрын

Nussbaum speaks like the stereotypical high british society intellectual.

@arunjetli7909 7 жыл бұрын

MsNussbaum is a pontificator, moralism is not logical but appealing to emotio. It is ridiculous to say that anger is aifight or flight mechanism, No anger is the reaction when the gulf between expectation and reality. It is an ontolgical issue. Aristotle was inapable of understanding this and neither is MsNussbaum

@broquestwarsneeder7617 5 жыл бұрын

that makes no sense