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Seneca, On Anger book 1 | Anger And Greatness of Spirit | Philosophy Core Concepts

Request personal videos on Cameo - https://www.cameo.com/gregorybsadler My Listenable Course: Basics of Stoic Philosophy and Practice - https://listenable.io/web/courses/440/ Get Seneca's On Anger - https://amzn.to/3ZEXQaN Support my work here -   / sadler   or Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM Philosophy tutorials - https://reasonio.wordpress.com/tutori... 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 Seneca's work On Anger book 1, and specifically on whether the emotion of anger is a sign or effect of the virtue of great-spiritedness or magnanimity, which Stoics consider to be one of the sub-virtues of courage. Here are some of the passages mentioned: Nor should we even suppose that anger adds something to greatness of spirit. For that’s not greatness; it’s a swelling, just as when bodies are stretched taut by an abundance of unhealthy fl uid. The disease is not an example of growth, but of destructive excess. All whose minds, in delirium, cause them to think more than human thoughts believe that they radiate something lofty, sublime. But there’s no solid underpinning; rather, what has been raised up without a foundation is apt to come crashing down. Anger has no sound footing: it doesn’t arise from something stable and destined to abide but is windy and empty, as far removed from greatness of spirit as recklessness is from bravery, arrogance from confidence, moroseness from sternness, cruelty from strictness... Do you mean to say that angry people don’t produce some utterances that seem the products of a great spirit?” No, rather, of spirits that don’t know true greatness, like that loathsome, abominable utterance, “Let hem hate, so long as they fear.” . . .Do you suppose that this was said by a great spirit? You’re mistaken; that’s not greatness, it’s brutality. There’s no reason to believe the words of angry men, who make loud and threatening noises while the mind within is in utter panic. Nor is there any reason to judge true what that most eloquent man Titus Livy says when he writes: “A man of a great rather than a good nature.” The two cannot be separated. Either the nature will be good, too, or it will not be great, either. Greatness of spirit, as I understand it, is unshaken, solid through and through, balanced and stable from its base on up, the sort of thing that bad natures cannot contain.... Greatness, whose strength and stability is goodness, they will not have. ... There’s nothing great, then, nothing notable in anger, not even when it seems to be vigorous, despising gods and men. Or if someone thinks anger produces a great spirit, let him think that luxury does too: it wants to be carried about on ivory, dressed in purple, covered in gold, it wants to move masses of land about, dam up the seas, create waterfalls, hang forests in midair. Let him think that greed, too, is the mark of a great spirit: it broods over heaps of gold and silver, cultivates estates that go by the names of provinces, puts individual stewards in charge of territories larger than those allotted to consuls.Let him think that lust, too, is the mark of a great spirit: it swims across straits in the sea, castrates flocks of boys, puts itself in the way of a husband’s sword, holding death in contempt. Let him think that ambition, too, is the mark of a great spirit: it’s not content with annual offices but wants, if possible, to engross the magistrate lists with a single name and to distribute its honorific inscriptions throughout the whole world." If you'd like to support my work producing videos like this, become a Patreon supporter! Here's the link to find out more - including the rewards I offer backers:   / sadler   You can also make a direct contribution to help fund my ongoing educational projects, by clicking here: https://www.paypal.me/ReasonIO If you're interested in philosophy tutorial sessions with me - especially on Seneca's thought and works - click here: https://reasonio.wordpress.com/tutori... You can find the copy of the text I am using for this sequence on Seneca's On Anger here - https://amzn.to/3smh6M8 My videos are used by students, lifelong learners, other professors, and professionals to learn more about topics, texts, and thinkers in philosophy, religious studies, literature, social-political theory, critical thinking, and communications. These include college and university classes, British A-levels preparation, and Indian civil service (IAS) examination preparation (Amazon links are associate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases) #Stoicism #Seneca #philosophy #Anger #Stoicism #Practice #AngerManagement #PersonalDevelopment #SelfHelp #Reflection #Judgment