ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book draws attention to the fact that the moral cognition inherent to rage is not a natural state. Instances of injustice and mistreatment, whether experienced on the individual or group level, are registered through an emotional appraisal. The book explores the classic rage tales of Homer's Iliad and Euripides's Hecuba; the reality that the pursuit of justice becomes a cardinal offense in its own right if it undermines the security of the polis. It shows the moral mandates in violence that those who exact brutality and violence against others always do so with a sense of moral righteousness. The book shows that the same moral mandates operated in Ressentiment as in outright punishment.
