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So for our first two installments, we treated anger as a kind of morally neutral feature of human

life, but with an eye to anger as a potentially good feature in human life.

We were already minded in that direction, and so we were solicitous

peace-out insights in that direction. But even to speak of it as a morally neutral phenomenon

is already to mispeed, because insofar as it is, it's good. Insofar as God supplied it,

he intends it for good. And so when we talk about the morality of anger, specifically it's virtuous formation,

we're just teasing out that metaphysical insight as we seek in this post-all world to heal and to grow what stands in need of healing and growing.

So we've said that anger regards the evil of injury, and it regards the good of

vindication.

And so we're going to look to how these movements, or this movement, is potentially

good if incorporated in a virtuous formation.

So I'm going to focus on a couple of phenomena, just kind of simple phenomena,

which should correspond with our experience, but which we can together interrogate in the

course of this lecture and then the conversation to follow tomorrow morning. In that anger,

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