Here's a piece I authored some time back, lightly edited, and now reposted for the general public in my Substack, discussing some of the great monastic thinker John Cassian's insights about the emotion of anger

https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/john-cassians-teachings-on-anger
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John Cassian’s Teachings on Anger

lessons about a difficult emotion drawn from monastic life

Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

John Cassian was one of the authors I had my students read last semester in my classes on Anger. Here's a piece with some of the lessons about that emotion we can draw from his works!

https://medium.com/practical-rationality/john-cassians-teachings-on-anger-b5cb06cbdbe5
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John Cassian’s Teachings on Anger - Practical Rationality - Medium

One of the thinkers whose insights about anger I have personally found particularly worth rereading and reflecting upon is John Cassian. He is a not-particularly well-known, but historically…

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My main interests as #primarysources are the #ApostlicFathers, #Irenaeus, #Origen, the #desertfathers, #Evagrius, #JohnCassian #MaximusTheConfessor, #GregoryPalamas, and the #Philokalia and its accompanying literature.