Martha Nussbaum’s Anger and Forgiveness is a philosophical exploration of the life of the emotions that benefits from numerous case studies, personal examples, and historical references. The fundamental point is that anger per se is a losing proposition. Nussbaum gives two major reasons: 1) being angry, and taking revenge, is not going to restore life to a murdered relative; 2) being angry and humiliating the offender so as to lower her status in life won’t raise the status of the person who has been offended except in a relative sense. Nussbaum argues that we should learn to transform anger into […]