A Holy Curiosity: The Synergy of Reason & Emotion
For most of Western thought, when people consider it, they divide thought into two primary categories. There are people who single out logic and reason, and who regard that mode as the core of human identity, as the pinnacle of human achievement, and as the mark of our uniqueness as a species. They hold this form of thinking to be in opposition to emotion, which they view as somehow sliding back into an animal existence and an inferior state of being. Of course, this charge upsets the emotionalists, being that they are - by definition - emotional.