RE: Rage and Outrage
December 31, 2010 at 9:24 am
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2010 at 9:29 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(December 30, 2010 at 5:42 pm)Sam Wrote: Rage is an experience or an action on the part of an individual whereas outrage is response to an outside action. Or am I misunderstanding you?
I think you do misunderstand me.
If a person looks at a red box from one angle, and another person looks at the same red box from another angle making it look different... does that mean its a different box? No. The perspective is just different. The red box is the same red box in experience, in reality, even if they are defined as different things when they are looked at from different perspectives.
So what I'm suggesting is that the experience of outrage can still be the same as the experience of rage..... it's just that the outrage is a raging mind looking at the thing that caused the rage, and the rage is the experience of the raging mind itself.... it's just a different perspective. And, importantly: Because rage does actually exist intrinsically as an emotion, and on the other hand, nothing is intrinsically outrageous: When we are enraged isn't that in fact identical in experience to when we are outraged?
