
想象愤怒不是道德失败或正当愤怒的标志,而是对另一人的关怀之欲。
理解其中意义是一篇关于灵性的专栏,探讨如何利用灵性来应对日常生活。
Imagine anger as a sign not of moral failure or justified outrage but the desire to care for another Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life Anger is an emotion we are taught to manage, control and suppress.
愤怒是一种我们被教导要管理、控制和压抑的情感。但如果愤怒,正如诗人大卫·怀特所说,是人类所能拥有的最深沉的同情形式之一,那又会如何呢?
But what if anger is, as poet David Whyte says, one of the deepest possible forms of compassion available to humankind?
哲学家和神学家长期以来一直区分美德之愤怒与非美德之愤怒。亚里士多德将愤怒定义为“伴随痛苦的、对显然报复的欲望,由显然的、不应得的轻视自己或与自己相关联的人所激发”。
Philosophers and theologians have long distinguished between virtuous and non-virtuous anger. Aristotle defined anger as “a desire, accompanied by pain, for apparent retribution, aroused by an apparent, undeserved slighting against oneself or those connected to oneself”.