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Assignment 7: Logic and Emotion

Philosophy and Popular Culture

July 14, 2022


Logic and Emotions

In chapter 14, the author claims that "today we often think that logic and emotion
are opposed to one another." This is how it is. The author is right in his view because in
today’s world, people often think that logic and emotions are two different and opposing
things. The logic and emotions are thought be opposing concepts that help in decision
making process. People often think that these two terms are opposing to each other.
This paper will discuss how these two terms are similar or different why people think
that these two terms are opposing to each other. According to Psychology Today, “most
decisions are driven by emotions, even though most people think that they approach
decision making through logic. Emotions are powerful. But logic – the ability to make
decisions using sound and rational thought processes – is something that may be
missing from your life.”

This question is beguiling on the grounds that it's inserting feeling and principle
on a variety during which they're contrary energies. In reality, feeling and principle area
unit altogether distinctive and usually area unit genuinely futile while not each other.
There are reports of people with damage to their corpus amygdaloideum, a bit of our
mind that's connected with our about to home selves. Such people have Associate in
nursing exceptionally tough time going with any selections any, not even what to
possess for lunch. According to Lawrence (2005) “Logic cannot always be completed
without emotion, especially with regards to decisions that affect life satisfaction. After all,
relationships, jobs, and other major decisions are not always just pen and paper
decisions. For example, logically a partner may look great on paper but they do not
create feelings of love and excitement. If so, they may not be the right partner.”

This comes right down to what principle really is it's a framework for creating
declarations in lightweight of a bunch of "in the event that" rules. It expresses nothing
concerning what we have a tendency to need to deeply want, and it does not truly allow
us to understand valid, and it depends on a previous place forth of statements and
objectives to figure.

Feeling furnishes USA with those objectives, and knowledge offers USA those
declarations. As a matter of truth, a private World Health Organization is acting
"irrationally" to USA could also be acting showing intelligence supported on what they
deeply want and what they settle for to be valid. Moreover, a private World Health
Organization has all the earmarks of being smart could also be altogether acting in a
very manner that's eventually about to come back up short since they're neglecting to
utilize what they really maintain that in life ought to escort their selections. You really
ought to take into account principle and feeling the motor and dominant wheel as critical
naturally suspecting these items area unit on the contrary sides of the same scale.

In conclusion it can be said that the author has rightly claimed that "today we
often think that logic and emotion are opposed to one another."
References

Lawrence, D. H. (2005). Introductions and Reviews. Ed. N. H. Reeve and John


Worthen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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