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Righteous indignation, also called righteous anger, is anger that is primarily motivated by a perception of injustice or other profound moral lapse. It is distinguished from anger that is prompted by something more personal, like an insult.
Indignation is a complex and discrete emotion that is triggered by social emotions and social environments. Feelings of anger and disgust are some emotions that constitute indignation. The feeling of indignation can occur when one is mistreated by another or negative feelings are sparked when a situation is out of the normal realm of society.
Aristotle wrote in his Rhetoric, Book II, Chapter 9, “indignation is the emotion most directly opposed to pity.” Aristotle also writes “Indignation is pain caused by the sight of undeserved good fortune.” [4] The terms indignation and indignatio are closely related in part by their common negative emotionality and anger. A speaker may ...
Let us not fear righteous anger or the very real power it can have to get things done. Let us know when and how to forgive and when and how not to. Let us see ― truly see.
“It is true the folks are loath to use the word ‘moral,’” he said of military brass. Those outside the military “will think it means somebody did something immoral,” which may not be the case, he said. The Pentagon declined to make policymaking officials available to discuss moral injury.
Righteous indignation (nemesis) is a sort of mean between schadenfreude and envy. Aristotle says he intends to discuss such cases later, before the discussion of Justice in Book V. But the Nicomachean Ethics does not discuss righteous indignation there (which is however discussed in the Eudemian Ethics Book VIII).
Jonathan Haidt, author of the book “The Righteous Mind,” writes that our responses to social and political events flow not from a rational thought process, but from deep-rooted intuitions ...
As many as 20% of veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, a diagnosis that includes the flashbacks, nightmares, anger, and anxiety people can ...