Seneca on Anger: The Stoic Art of Defusing Rage Before It Owns You
Seneca opens De Ira with a question that decides everything: what difference does it make whether you banish anger or merely forbid it to act? His answer — that anger is a brief madness which can never be safely caged, because it begins in a judgment you are free to refuse — has been confirmed point by point by modern research on the amygdala, venting, and reappraisal. This is the complete method: the tyrant's catalogue, the philosophers who refused the rage, the six mistakes that feed the fire, and a 7-day protocol for defusing anger at the fuse.