ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to show that if anger and resentment are fair responses to moral offences that express ill will, then they are also fair responses to unfair emotions that express ill will. It presents an account of resentment as a dispositional state that disposes to episodes of anger and that therefore the appropriateness of resentment depends, in part, on the appropriateness of anger. It addresses both the worry that resentment might itself necessarily instantiate ill will and more common worries about the supposedly necessarily violent and vengeful nature of anger. Both worries pose problems for the plausibility of emotions ever being the appropriate object of these attitudes.
