Hi Sam:
You wrote:
>Second element: rationality is subject to emotion in our decision
>making processes.
In case you are not aware of it there's a new book out by Martha C.
Nussbaum entitled: UPHEAVALS OF THOUGHT, The Intelligence of
Emotions. From what I read in the review of the book in the NYTimes,
Nussbuam seems to support your thesis. Here's an excerpt from the
review:
''Upheavals of Thought'' is a staggering feat of synthesis, reflecting not
only Nussbaum's wide-ranging expertise in philosophy, law, divinity,
classics, Asian studies and gender studies but recent developments
in cognitive psychology, anthropology and psychoanalysis as well. She
shows herself an impassioned literary and musical critic, too, and
credits the arts for our most enlightening emotional instruction. Marcel
Proust, whom she considers ''in some ways the most profound object-
relations psychoanalyst of all,'' provides her title, in his observation that
love ''produces real geological upheavals of thought.'' Her central claim
is that emotions like love and grief, far from irrational distractions, are
''intelligent responses to the perception of value.'' They proceed from
judgments we make concerning objects and people that are beyond
our control but important to our flourishing, and as such are ''part and
parcel of the system of ethical reasoning.''
The full review can be found at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/books/review/18STEINET.html?se
archpv=past7days
Platt
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