Seneca, On Anger Book 1 - Definitions Of Anger - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1

It focuses specifically on the definitions of anger he considers at the beginning of the work. These include:
Anger is a brief madness (some "wise people")
Anger is the desire to take vengeance for a wrong
Anger is the desire to punish the person by whom you reckon you were unjustly harmed (Posidonius)
Anger is the arousal of the mind to harm the person who has either harmed oneself or wished to do so
Anger is the desire to return pain for pain (Aristotle)

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