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Quotation from Rhetoric by Aristotle
“Anger may be defined as an impulse, accompanied by pain, to a conspicuous revenge for a conspicuous slight directed without justification towards what concerns oneself or towards what concerns one's friends”
Rhetoric, Book II, Ch. 2, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924)
The definition that opens Aristotle's analysis of the emotions; anger rests on a judgment about an unjustified slight.
Citation: "Anger may be defined as an impulse, accompanied by pain, to a conspicuous revenge for a conspicuous slight directed without justification towards what concerns oneself or towards what concerns one's friends" — Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book II, Ch. 2, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924). (id aristotle-rhetoric-q7)
