Monday, October 10, 2011

Rationality & Emotion

RIC_8676-1 by rchoephoto

RIC_8676-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality.
It is only because our emotional brains work so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom




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