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Analyzing the ancient Greek point of view concerning anger, shame, and justice and a very modern one, one can see that anger has a regulative function, but shame does as well. Anger puts the other in his place, thereby regulating hierarchies. Shame regulates the social relations of recognition. Both emotions also have an evaluative function because anger evaluates a situation with regard to a humiliation and shame with regard to a misdemeanor. In addition, attention must be paid to the correct molding of these emotions and the correct ways of using them during rearing one to be good or just (i.e., in personality formation).
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*This paper is a shortened and for this volume revised version of Eva-Maria Engelen (2008) in “Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte”, 50.
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Engelen, EM. (2009). Anger, Shame, and Justice: Regulative and Evaluative Function of Emotions in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. In: Markowitsch, H., Röttger-Rössler, B. (eds) Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09546-2_18
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