Why should knowledge/logic reign over feeling/emotion?

Question

E.g my mother is extremely religious - it provides her emotional support/strength,comforts her,helps her function,gives her meaning,provides her with a social network, and a sense of morality.


With my knowledge of science and history I could derail my mother's beliefs,but why would I - if it provides so much?

Why should factual knowledge precede over emotional health?

kappalok as I said she is more mentally healthy than myself.

Answer 1

Logic and emotion are not antithetical to one another; they are complimentary. If one is dealing with math, then logic is the tool of choice in determining what 1 + 1 is: it is 2 whether I feel like it is or not. That said, this does not trump emotion, since it is emotion which often tempers our logic and softens it removing its remorseless and often brutal edge. The scientists who worked on the Manhattan project were torn between the relentless, pure logic that led to the bomb, and the terror and awe they felt at releasing its power. There is an interplay that we can not live without. A world full of Spocks would neither appreciate nor propagate beauty, only utility and efficiency. This is the sort of thing that was personified in the Third Reich: calculating, heartless machine-like progress. On the other hand, the tender emotion that a mother feels at the birth of a child is part of the emotional gift that God has given humanity that is part of the salvation of us all.

Absent this, we would be savage, brutal, and worse than any beast on the planet, for surely we possess the capacity to imagine and carry out far more harm. It is for this reason that God has seen fit to divide the sexes fairly evenly between logic and emotion. As a rule, men tend toward logic and women toward emotion. This does not mean that neither is capable of changing mental modes, rather that there is a preponderance of tendencies distributed among the sexes. Certainly there are exceptions! There are many many women who are far more logical than I, and there are a good deal many men more emotional than I.

In short, one is not superior to the other - they are both needed. You will note, I imagine, that I said nothing about your lack of belief and your mother's possession of faith; let that be for an email.

Tom

Answer 2

Knowledge/logic doesn't reign over feeling/emotion. What it does is permit us to make healthy, rational decisions, as opposed to irrational ones.

Every choice, at the very core, is emotional. You can research a new car, check the reviews, find the best price, get the best loan rate, test drive it, talk to the salesman about everything under the sun, etc, etc, but when you finally make the mental choice to purchase, it is your feelings and emotions that say, "yes, I want this car." If you were logical and rational up to that point, you probably got a better deal than the fool who saw a shiny paint job, an attractive loan rate, and fell for the salesperson's spiel hook, line & sinker.

It is the information and reasoning we use up until that split second before we choose things that determines whether we go in healthy or unhealthy directions.

I would venture to say that your mother probably lives in a very narrow corridor where religion provides all she needs. For most people, the world is full of challenges that can't be addressed by religion alone. Were she forced to venture outside her comfort zone, she might find ignorance of logic, pragmatism, critical thinking, and rationality a great liability, and turn to someone who could provide these things... like her daughter.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Because factual knowledge helps us to understand matters so that we will not be bothered to take care our emotional health and not get derailed. Negative emotion is destructive. Jesus Christ came for the sake of forgiveness because if you dont forgive it will make you feel terrible so you need to release the person hurting you. And that is emotion, which is block to our advancement.

Answer 5

If your mother keeps her religious thoughts to herself and does not try to enforce them on others, such as by trying to influence public policy, then I agree. Also,I doubt that you could derail her beliefs simply using your knowledge of science and history. Religious types are typically not bothered by knowledge.

Answer 6

I would say that it would be wise that your mother's beliefs are making her peaceful. You know whether or not your mother is open to certain things better than any of us. So would avoiding that conflict be based upon knowledge/ logic, or feeling/ emotion?

Answer 7

knowledge/logic should never prevail over feeling/emotion. So, I'm not going to answer your question. Why should knowledge and logic never prevail over feeling/emotion? The reason why is because if feeling/emotion are not first, people will kill each other for food, if they are hungry, etc.

Answer 8

Religion can provide emotional support, but it is the truth that sets us free. Good religion provides a more complete truth...it adds to science and history, instead of contradicting it and limiting it. (though, sometimes the truth can contradict "history" since history is always written with an agenda.)

Answer 9

You presume from a false assumption that science or history are in conflict with religion or could ever hope to take the place of it. Also that anything you could say would shake the faith of true believers.

Answer 10

yup, its the same with me and my mother. but i've a feeling she would have had led a much better life if she wasn't so religious.

good question.

and no, i dont think knowledge or logic should reign over feeling or emotions, but rather they should be backed by it! feelings and emotions transcend reasoning... but if they aren't backed by intellect, they can be delusional! that doesn't imply that our feelings or intuitions should always be explainable... they might transcend reasons and logic, but shouldn't be unreasonable or illogical!

I guess there is a difference between transcending reason and being unreasonable!