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It’s neither/nor. It’s not about acting rationally versus emotionally. Reason isn’t necessarily good. And emotion isn’t necessarily bad. It’s a matter of act
by perfmode 7y ago
It’s neither/nor.
It’s not about acting rationally versus emotionally.
Reason isn’t necessarily good. And emotion isn’t necessarily bad.
It’s a matter of acting unintentionally versus intentionally.
(For some definition of intentionally).
A crude counterexample {
Some people might act rationally out of habit.
And for them, self-distancing might result in listening more closely to emotions which, for them, tend to be crowded out by deeply-ingrained intellectual ideologies.
} And in fact, it’s not about ideology versus non-ideology.
There are people throughout history who have articulated this much clearer than I have.
I hope someone will follow up with links to passages in this vein.