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Objection 1: It would seem that anger is in the concupiscible
faculty. For Cicero says (De Quaest. Tusc. iv, 9) that anger
is a kind of "desire." But desire is in the concupiscible faculty.
Therefore anger is too.
Objection 2: Further, Augustine says in his Rule, that "anger
grows into hatred": and Cicero says (De Quaest. Tusc. iv, 9)
that "hatred is inveterate anger." But hatred, like love, is a
concupiscible passion. Therefore anger is in the concupiscible
faculty.
Objection 3: Further, Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 16)
and Gregory of Nyssa [Nemesius, De Nat. Hom. xxi.] say that
"anger is made up of sorrow and desire." Both of these are in the
concupiscible faculty. Therefore anger is a concupiscible passion.
On the contrary, The concupiscible is distinct from the irascible
faculty. If, therefore, anger were in the concupiscible power, the
irascible would not take its name from it.
I answer that, As stated above (Question 23, Article 1), the
passions of the irascible part differ from the passions of the
concupiscible faculty, in that the objects of the concupiscible
passions are good and evil absolutely considered, whereas the objects
of the irascible passions are good and evil in a certain elevation or
arduousness. Now it has been stated (Article 2) that anger regards
two objects: viz. the vengeance that it seeks; and the person on whom
it seeks vengeance; and in respect of both, anger requires a certain
arduousness: for the movement of anger does not arise, unless there be
some magnitude about both these objects; since "we make no ado about
things that are naught or very minute," as the Philosopher observes
(Rhet. ii, 2). It is therefore evident that anger is not in the
concupiscible, but in the irascible faculty.
Reply to Objection 1: Cicero gives the name of desire to any kind
of craving for a future good, without discriminating between that which
is arduous and that which is not. Accordingly he reckons anger as a
kind of desire, inasmuch as it is a desire of vengeance. In this
sense, however, desire is common to the irascible and concupiscible
faculties.
Reply to Objection 2: Anger is said to grow into hatred, not as
though the same passion which at first was anger, afterwards becomes
hatred by becoming inveterate; but by a process of causality. For
anger when it lasts a long time engenders hatred.
Reply to Objection 3: Anger is said to be composed of sorrow and
desire, not as though they were its parts, but because they are its
causes: and it has been said above (Question 25, Article 2)
that the concupiscible passions are the causes of the irascible
passions.
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