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Full Idea
There are some things at which we actually ought to feel angry, and others that we actually ought to desire - health, for instance, and learning.
Gist of Idea
At times we ought to feel angry, and we ought to desire health and learning
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1111a29)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.115
A Reaction
This is obviously an important part of virtue theory. Other theories are inclined to take our feelings as a given, and then offer rules for controlling and directing them. Emphasis on character can involve re-educating bad desires.
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| 22590 | Virtue is concerned with correct feelings [Aristotle] |
| 6287 | If you lust after a woman, you have committed adultery [Jesus] |
| 8061 | If morality just is emotion, there are no external criteria for judging emotions [MacIntyre] |
| 6701 | Rescue operations need spontaneous benevolence, not careful thought [Graham] |
| 3221 | Our desires become important when we have desires about desires [Rey] |
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