Chapter SixEmotions and Logic
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Portable Nietzsche
I never wished to set emotion against reason, but rather to see emotion as at the least assisting reason and at best holding a dialogue with it.
Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error
Our thinking about the tension between emotions and logic, between feelings and reason, is inconsistent. As the previous quotes suggest, we sometimes favor one and sometimes the other. This bifurcated way of viewing emotions and logic is not a recent development; rather, it reflects the age-old effort to understand the relationship between the body and the mind.
We tend to view emotions and logic ...
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