Peter Jones

And it's kind of the turning away from people.

What makes avarice antisocial, when it becomes a deadly sin, is when our attention to objects makes...

us more interested in the objects than we are in people.

And ultimately, if it's clothes, for example, it's when the clothes we wear are more interesting than us ourselves.

We become mannequins.

Medieval theologians describe it as kind of the becoming object yourself.

You get so attached to objects that you become the object.

Anger is, yeah, okay, so it's kind of got an obvious definition, you know, the loss of control.

You know, I've gone into a frenzy because something has upset me.

But really, medieval theologians describe it as a love of being right.

Right.

The enjoyment of being right.

And at its best, anger is, you know, you recognize wrongdoing.

You recognize when things are wrong and you want to put them right.

You know, it's fantastic.

You know, like the legal system functions on anger in this way.

Why do QCs get out of bed in the morning?

Because they need to make right.

And in the Middle Ages, there's a lot of recognition of this.

The Crusades function on righteous anger.