The Stoic case is in contradiction of the idea of Aristotle’s idea of the “golden mean”. The passions are in contradiction to virtue, because in order to act reasonably, your judgement must not be clouded by emotion. Virtuous anger is thus a contradiction. Their advice would be to excise it immediately as it impairs the soundness of mind required for rational action. Seneca’s “On Anger” makes this case citing examples from his times, nuances of anger, possible counterarguments and why they’re wrong, why Aristotle is wrong.....
[tried to write the same argument using Friston’s free energy principle, and mood as computational context supplying priors, but I got bored with it....]
The Stoic case is in contradiction of the idea of Aristotle’s idea of the “golden mean”.
The passions are in contradiction to virtue, because in order to act reasonably, your judgement must not be clouded by emotion. Virtuous anger is thus a contradiction.
Their advice would be to excise it immediately as it impairs the soundness of mind required for rational action.
Seneca’s “On Anger” makes this case citing examples from his times, nuances of anger, possible counterarguments and why they’re wrong, why Aristotle is wrong.....
[tried to write the same argument using Friston’s free energy principle, and mood as computational context supplying priors, but I got bored with it....]