Abstract

Civil anger as paying attention

Highlights

  • I am angry that the Department of Education is instructing universities to protect those accused of sexual assault – at the expense of the survivors of the assault.[1]

  • I am angry that it seems normal to disregard scientific consensus based on political beliefs.[2]

  • I want to conclude by thanking Cris for this insightful essay

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

Calling anger an “emotion whose manifestations are often but characteristically destructive and cruel,” Callard made a relevant point: “If we are trying to solve normative problems – to make the world a better place – it looks as though we have better tools at our disposal than anger.”[13] That said, I would not want us to fall into the trap Mayo describes, where we are unjustly curbing someone’s anger (often someone from a group that is underrepresented in higher education), in the name of moving past the anger towards what we consider to be positive change and progress. Point that such anger can serve a political function This leads me to my third question: How might we extract the potentially poisonous outcomes of anger and channel the more productive parts of anger, in thinking about a kind of anger that serves the democratic purposes of education? This leads me to my third question: How might we extract the potentially poisonous outcomes of anger and channel the more productive parts of anger, in thinking about a kind of anger that serves the democratic purposes of education? Could we reconceptualize or expand the notion of “civility” to account for anger and righteousness?

CIVIL ANGER
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