What is Irascible:
Irascible It is an adjective that we can use to refer to who is very prone to getting irritated or angry. The word, as such, comes from Latin irascibĭlis, which means ‘susceptible to becoming angry’. In this sense, synonyms of irascible they are irritable, choleric or irascible.
Hence the qualification of irascible falls specifically on the people who show ease in developing feelings of indignation or anger in the face of certain situations or certain people: “When Mary is in her days she becomes very irascible.”
Irascible, then, can only be someone who is, for some reason or circumstance, predisposed towards his environment: “Since his mother scolded him on the street, he has been very irascible.”
The irascible personIn this way, he is characterized by constantly identifying, in others, signs or attitudes that would justify anger, such as an offense, an injustice or an abuse against him: “Do not contradict him in his work, because he becomes irascible.”
In English, irascible is an adjective that also refers to the tendency to get angry easily. As such, it is written the same as in Spanish: irascible. For example “I have is an irascible and complicated football player”.
Irascible in Philosophy
Plato, in the “Myth of the winged chariot”, considered that the soul of men was fundamentally divided into three parts: the rational, the irascible and the concupiscible, represented in a chariot driven by a charioteer and drawn by two horses, one white, good and obedient, and another black, bad and undocile. Each of the three parts had a specific meaning:
The rational part (the charioteer) was focused on the activities of the intellect and thought, which are those that lead to knowledge; irascible part (white horse), for its part, was linked to noble passions, such as will, courage and strength; concupiscible part (black horse), on the other hand, was the one that referred to the lower appetites of man, that is, those associated with desire and instinct.