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Seneca and Classical Conditioning

4 Pages 1028 Words February 2017

One of the most debatable emotions in a person's life is anger. There are so many discussions about the existence of anger, the way anger harms people and their surroundings, the way of suppressing it, and so on. The definition of anger varies from person to person and from one philosopher to another. In this regard, I would like to make a detailed study on the concept of "anger" according to Seneca. Seneca, the Roman Philosopher, has big passion about human soul and he’s argued that anger is bad and should be removed completely from soul. This essay will first describe Seneca’s point of view of the characteristics of anger, the effects of anger, what causes anger, and how to remove anger in order to understand how he persuades people that anger is erroneous. Then evaluate the reason why i agree with his assertions focusing on the anger in our life now.
Seneca’s efforts on influencing people to believe that anger is wrong begins by describing the characteristics of anger. He defines anger as “the most hideous and frenzied of all emotions.” (Seneca On Anger ex. 1.1). He then continue by saying that anger is “oblivious of decency, heedless of personal relationships, obstinate and intent on anything once started, closed to reasoning to advice, incapable of discerning fairness or truth, anger most resembles those ruins which crash in pieces over what they have crushed.” (Seneca On Anger ex. 1.1). Anger express violent uncontrollable desire that is utterly inhuman to inflict pain, for revenge in blood, and harm. Seneca also contrasts human and anger. He said that “human is loving, caring, and was created for mutual assistance, while anger is cruel, and was created for mutual destruction.” (Seneca On Anger ex.b1.3) Humans and anger are not meant to be together.
Seneca points out the bad effects which caused by anger. “You will see slaughter, poisoning, charge, and counter-charge in the law-courts, devastation of citi...

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