Life without anger
It’s rarely a good idea to take advice from a philosopher. (And yes, I’m a philosopher offering you that advice.) But when your brother is a…
Emotion
Essays and ideas exploring emotion, feeling, reason, expression, and the ways emotions shape how we understand ourselves and others.
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NFN: Mixed feelings
“To be able to respond to anger without bitterness, to respond to fear without retreat, to meet joy without arrogance – this is the way of…
The wheel of emotion
Emotions can hijack our minds. They prepare us for action, and they neighbour our perception. But they also reveal what matters to us most. […] The…
The meaning of moods
When we ask people how they are, we are, in essence, asking them about their mood because moods are how we orientate ourselves in the world.…
On Anger
I. You have demanded of me, Novatus, that I should write how anger may be soothed, and it appears to me that you are right in…
