7 Deadly Sins
Anger
Audio 48:30
Anger.
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By: Anne Dorval
1 min
It can be white or black.
Healthy, free or divine.
It growls, threatens, explodes, consumes.
The ancients nicknamed it short madness.
It is sometimes confused with caprice or irascibility.
Like the pain of living, anger does not prevent, it happens.
If the philosopher Seneca placed it at the top of all vices, Saint-Thomas Aquinas was more lenient.
He believed that anger is natural and legitimate when it meets 3 conditions: a right object, a right intention and a measured reaction.
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Anger can be an extraordinary engine of creation, it is also the mother of great social upheavals.
Sometimes it relieves, sometimes it makes people tremble and it is because it disturbs the established order that the Fathers of the Church feared it so much.
Guests:
Philippe Geluck, Dany Laferrière, Jean-Philippe Baril-Guérard, Laure Adler, Sophie Galabru, Benjamin Epps, Mélissa Mollen Dupuis, Patrice Leconte, Boris Cyrulnik, Rafaële Germain, Marie Laberge.
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