About anger

Number of pages 232 through a comparison between the dualities of the mind/wisdom, and emotion/anger, and through presenting psychological and societal explorations for each side of these dualities, with descriptions of the previous, accompanying, and resulting physical symptoms, Seneca the Stoic begins about two thousand years ago in his mission to explore the depths of the human soul in a state of passion/anger and the absence of reason/wisdom. Throughout the pages of this book, we find the evidence proving facts, refuting claims, establishing arguments, and dismissing allegations, with examples from history he has heard of and from his own experience living through events, to reach the conclusion that, as stated in the last lines of the book in our hands: "Let us keep our mood pleasant despite the losses, injustices, insults, and accusations we are subjected to, and let us patiently endure our fleeting problems with pride, for while we are busy thinking about what is best for us, as the proverb says, and feeling anxious about ourselves, death will have already settled in our arena." Whether we accept or deny in our time all or some of what he discussed at the time, we can only appreciate his effort and diligence and enjoy the narration of the philosopher-writer in his hypothetical debate with an opponent regarding these two dualities, with an extensive focus on the issue of anger. Here, we recall what Robert Greene Ingersoll said, the American writer and orator: "Anger is the only wind capable of extinguishing the flame of reason."