Aristotle on Hate And Anger

When we look at what are often called "negative emotions" - fear, jealousy, anger, hatred, for instance - there is strong tendency in our contemporary society (particularly when it's a matter of politics or culture) to do three different but connected things.

One of these is projecting these emotions onto others, typically people against whom we feel ourselves to be opposed.  Another is to denying or renaming those emotions on our own parts, or failing that, to excuse them in ourselves by...