Aristotle defines meekness, praotēs, as the balance between orgilotēs, which means excessive anger, and aorgēsia, which means excessive “anger-less”. Praotēs, meekness, as Aristotle saw it, is the happy medium between too much and too little anger. And so the first possible translation of the beatitude is:
Blessed are those who are always angry at the r…
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