{"id":3304,"date":"2020-03-08T05:45:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T05:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/08\/st-john-cassian-on-anger\/"},"modified":"2020-03-08T05:45:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T05:45:41","slug":"st-john-cassian-on-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/08\/st-john-cassian-on-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John Cassian on Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philokalia<\/em>, vol. I (Faber and Faber, 1979, p. 83):<\/span><\/p>\n

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If, therefore, you desire to attain perfection and rightly to pursue the spiritual way, you should make yourself a stranger to all sinful anger and wrath. Listen to what St. Paul enjoins: 'Rid yourselves of all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, evil speaking and all malice' (Eph. 4:31) In saying 'all' he leaves no excuse for regarding any anger as necessary or reasonable. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Our incensive power can be used in a way that is according to nature only when turned against our own impassioned or self-indulgent thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We are at first told that no anger is "necessary or reasonable" and then told in effect that some anger is, namely anger at our own impassioned or self-indulgent thoughts.  <\/span><\/p>\n

In a charitable spirit, we may take the second bit of text as correcting, rather than contradicting, the first.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is righteous anger the object of which is oneself. I take it a step further: there is righteous anger the objects of which are others. <\/span><\/p>\n

But is contempt for others ever justified? I go back and forth on this question.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Philokalia, vol. I (Faber and Faber, 1979, p. 83): If, therefore, you desire to attain perfection and rightly to pursue the spiritual way, you should make yourself a stranger to all sinful anger and wrath. Listen to what St. Paul enjoins: 'Rid yourselves of all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, evil speaking and all malice' … Continue reading “St. John Cassian on Anger”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-deadly-sins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}