Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice<\/a>,<\/em> which I\u2019ve recently read, provides a liberating framework for thinking about this topic. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m going to need to read it again. She thinks that anger has a very limited role to play in creating social good, and her critique of modern ideas about forgiveness is brilliant. Her analysis of the ways that Ghandi, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela approached these questions is worth the read all by themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cultivating anger is ultimately self-destructive. It\u2019s also a choice, not a necessity. Philosopher Martha Nussbaum\u2019s book, Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice, which I\u2019ve recently read, provides a liberating framework for thinking about this topic. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m going to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,12],"tags":[93,94,92],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-been-readin","category-lessons-ive-learned-the-hard-way","tag-observations-about-psychology","tag-observations-about-society","tag-philosophy-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}