Alexandros Manolakakis
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I come from a Liberal Arts background, guided by a commitment to the examined life and a love of thinking and learning. My work sits at the intersection of Ancient Greek thought, moral psychology, and philosophy of education, and my current research is animated by a key question: how to think, discuss, and learn to live with our emotions – particularly anger – rather than merely manage, suppress, or master them, so that they can be integrated into a healthy, flourishing life.
My doctoral project, A Philosophical Education of Anger, aims to develop a historically grounded account of anger through both a moral-psychological and a pedagogical lens. Overall, I seek to recover from the classical tradition insight and vocabulary that can inform contemporary discussions in moral psychology and philosophy of education about the formation of character and the art of living – for now, particularly in relation to anger.
