I don't know where intuition fits in--I've never had any that I know of to trust or not to trust.
There are, for my money, also times when emotion can be right and reason (for whatever, um, reason) dead wrong. I wouldn't trust either alone in absolutely all cases. We need both. Or, even if we don't, we have both and there's no getting away from it.
The reason...I'm sorry, the consideration that prompts me to stress the control of emotion by reason is that emotion is so much more powerful and basic. Reason is the top three inches of the iceberg that is a person, and it has to work many times as hard to steer the whole gigantic bulk and stop it crashing into ships and things. It is what makes us human, I think, in that it's one of the last things to develop in the species that became us, and that puts it at a huge disadvantage against the old wily monster it has to ride.
Sorry this has taken so long--I got called away in mid-thingy and have now lost my thread. I think that was about it though.
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Date: 2009-05-19 11:58 pm (UTC)There are, for my money, also times when emotion can be right and reason (for whatever, um, reason) dead wrong. I wouldn't trust either alone in absolutely all cases. We need both. Or, even if we don't, we have both and there's no getting away from it.
The reason...I'm sorry, the consideration that prompts me to stress the control of emotion by reason is that emotion is so much more powerful and basic. Reason is the top three inches of the iceberg that is a person, and it has to work many times as hard to steer the whole gigantic bulk and stop it crashing into ships and things. It is what makes us human, I think, in that it's one of the last things to develop in the species that became us, and that puts it at a huge disadvantage against the old wily monster it has to ride.
Sorry this has taken so long--I got called away in mid-thingy and have now lost my thread. I think that was about it though.