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The Moral Legitimacy of Anger
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The authors argued that anger represents an appropriate response to wilful harm and needs to be afforded a central role in any conception of justice, and argued that it is important to recognize the moral legitimacy of their anger.Abstract:
This article seeks to contest the frequently repeated assertion that anger poses the greatest threat to transitional societies moving from authoritarianism to democracy. Against suggestions that victims of past injustices should forswear their `negative emotions' lest they spark a renewed cycle of violence, it argues that it is important to recognize the moral legitimacy of their anger. While anger is notoriously (though contestably) vulnerable to excess and needs to be moderated in reference to shared norms of reasonableness, it represents an appropriate response to wilful harm and needs to be afforded a central role in any conception of justice.read more
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Emotional Reconciliation Reconstituting Identity and Community after Trauma
Emma Hutchison,Roland Bleiker +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines the public significance of emotions, most specifically their role in constituting identity and community in the wake of political violence and trauma, and offers a conceptual engagement with processes of healing and reconciliation, showing that emotions are central to how societies experience and work through the legacy of catastrophe.
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‘Not an act of God’: anger and citizenship in press coverage of British man-made disasters:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on expressions of anger in British disaster coverage between 1952 and 1999 and conclude that anger opens up a space for ordinary people to critique power holders, allowing victims and those affected by disasters to raise questions of systemic failure and blame.
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Anger and world politics: how collective emotions shift over time
TL;DR: The interrelations between emotions, social structures, and personal and collective identities are now more central to the study of international relations than ever before as discussed by the authors, and it has been argued that emotions are social because culture influences their experience and expression.
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Post-conflict societies and the social sciences: a review
TL;DR: This article reviewed the growing literature on post-conflict societies in the social sciences and outlined the opportunity postconflict society provides the Social Sciences to demonstrate their "impact" and "public value" as well as the challenges the field throws out to social sciences, in particular to their moral relativism and the traditional disciplinary closure from moral questions.
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Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the need and recognition of emotions as judgments of value, and the need for human beings to recognize their need for love and need to express it.
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No Future Without Forgiveness
TL;DR: Tutu as mentioned in this paper put forward a bold spirituality that recognizes the horrors people can inflict upon one another and yet retains a sense of idealism and realism about reconciliation, and shared profound lessons of forgiveness from his own life and from the people of South Africa.
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On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness
TL;DR: One of the world's most famous philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores difficult questions in this important and engaging book as discussed by the authors, drawing on examples of treatment of minority groups in Europe, he skilfully and accessibly probes the thinking that underlies much of the practice and rhetoric that informs cosmopolitanism.
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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
TL;DR: The Therapy of Desire List of Philosophers and Schools Bibliography Index Locorum General Index Ch. 1Therapeutic Arguments Ch. 2Medical Dialectic: Aristotle on Theory and Practice Ch. 3Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health Ch. 4Epicurean Surgery: Argument and Empty Desire Ch. 5Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius on the Therapy of Love Ch. 6Mortal Immortals: Lucrekius on Death and the Voice of Nature Ch. 7"By Words, Not Arms":Lucretius