Are Emotion and Reason inseparable areas of knowledge?

Question

I'm open to all ideas.

Please support your argument with an example

Answer 1

Physiologically and Psychologically possible,
the emotion and reason processing areas of our brain are situated in different parts..
i watched an episode in Discovery Health which tackled about head trauma injuries, specifically at the front side of the brain. a Loving father and devoted husband drastically lost his capacity to love and feel affection towards his family after a motorcycle accident. He still has the capacity to find reason in everything he does, but without emotions involve.. everything it out of practicality and no more sentimentality. He became a stranger.... He remembers but not the way he felt and will never understand how it is to be happy(to see his son grow up) and be excited(for every kiss he gets from his wife)... i thought it was sad... but that's a fact...
Philosophically, our emotions always give reason to all we does. How we love is always connected with How we life..
the person who is well loved... and felt life to the fullest has the most reason to live....
without your emotions, youre merely existing....
Feelings keeps us wanting to feel more.... love more.. live more....

Answer 2

A person gains knowledge thru their experiences. Education is an experience. As is love and rational thought. Yet love and rational thought are always at loggerheads with one another. Thus emotion and reason, though continually separate, can only lead to knowledge as combined experiences. An example: how often have you encountered a girl/woman with whom you would enjoy a relationship , only to watch her chose the "bad boy" type that will lead her to emotional destruction. Where is the rationale?

Answer 3

I was with Joe H all the way except for the last part about matter and electricity. I know there are different parts of our brains that control reason and emotion, so brain damage can effect one or both or neither. Both, in everday experience, are coexisting in delicate balance, doing a little dance around each other, drawing each other out and holding each other in check. Kind of like nuclear power capability! No, not really. I know I need both to survive.

Answer 4

i'd say that reason and emotion are not inseparable.
i think that they both work at the same time, and that they are present at all times, but are not interconnected. Reason CAN BLOCK emotion, and vice versa.
an example is when one gets a horrible news: emotion will most probably block reason for an instance.

I would say that both reason and emotion are a products of knowledge, and are not knowledge per se.

at the end of the day... all are chemical and electrical reactions inside your head.

at the end of the day...the all is electricity, matter doesnt even exist, matter is just a form of electricity.

Answer 5

Technically they are separated. Emotion though of the mind like reason stems from a different part. Like when you hear people say hold to my head not my heart. They are emphasizing that the mind which is reason is completely separate from the heart which is emotion. Love for instance is purely emotion. Often times you don't have to think yourself in love it just happens naturally.

Answer 6

Not inseparable. Emotion is feeling, and Reason comes from intellect. We lean on each or favor one when we make decisions. "My feeling that he is kind and loves kittens pulls at my emotions, but knowing he is a crack-head causes me to reason that he's not for me!" I think they are very separate! But, God gave them BOTH to us to use, along with wisdom.

Answer 7

yeah because you have to know and understand these things before you can truly show them and if u r unable to show them then u become a shell and have no purpose of living

Answer 8

They are, as long as they are tempered by knowledge.