Emotion Vs Emotion

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Emotion is believed to hinder the knowledge acquisition process and we often devalue the significance emotion plays in the production of knowledge. Just like how fear of death is the factor behind medical innovation, emotion is why we reason and therefore to a certain extent this claim is true. Knowledge would be defined as information obtained from research or coming to a decision that could affect the world’s perspective or future course of events. Reason is a way of knowing that allows an individual to process information in a logical and regulated manner such as deductive/inductive reasoning. Conclusions are based upon the data at hand and past experiences. Emotion is a way of knowing that does not produce any specific form of knowledge …show more content…
However, this would mean that reason and emotion work separately, but that would mean that this knowledge is not applicable to ethics. Simply put, a decision without reason is an emotional decision and a decision without emotion is a logical decision. For ethics to exist, reason and emotion have to coexist. But as previously noted emotion and reason constantly counter one another when coming to a midpoint in ethical decision-making. This requires the development of emotional intelligence, which is unquantifiable and is developed overtime and is affected by immeasurable factors. An example would be a person who is unaware of the principles of altruism and ethical egoism, somebody like a child. A child is unaware of these principles and therefore he/she behaves in the manner they feel they are most comfortable/natural with. However, one does not categorize a child’s action ethical or unethical because one knows that they do not understand how to make choices, they do not know the difference between right and wrong. Only as they grow, will they be able to distinguish between these principles through situations in everyday life and a point of time will come where they can be called “mature” enough to make their own decisions. This shows that emotion does not necessarily cause us to reason all the time hence making the KI untrue. It is only after one is able to distinguish between right and …show more content…
I agree that because of emotion, reason is able to work, but I do not agree that emotion is solely responsible for the functioning and application of reason. I have come to an understanding that reason can be split up and applied in different instances when necessary, just like reason in mathematics is different from reason in emotional intelligence. However, the exploration of both areas of knowledge have yielded one defining point and that being, in certain or most instances emotion is the driving force that leads use to reason in the first