More Than Logical: A Place for the Emotions in Humanism
Posted: November 30, 2009.
Print: New Humanism
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Although intuitions are not the result of logical problem solving, the trained intuitions of experts reflect empiricism and observation. As such, they have a place in the scientific method, at least in terms of formulating hypotheses. Creative insight is another example of unconscious problem solving, and one that seems to affirm theories of differential processing in the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
...Whole-brain thinking means opening yourself up to all the ways the brain uses information. Faith eschews whole-brain thinking by failing to examine feelings, intuitions, and revelations through a critical lens. Humanists ought not to make the opposite mistake of designating critical thinking as the only legitimate form of cognition. Faith is incompatible with reason, but emotions are not.
Logic and, what i like to call, psycho-logic.. The former deals with the objective, and the latter deals with the subjective…There’s sometimes inuendo in argument regarding the objective and subjective mindset as dichotomous in nature. Obviously, i propose an easier assumption to work on. I always riposte by mentioning the potential the two vantage points(objective, subjective) have. They are two sides of the same coin. Neither side bear dominion. The value they possess is equivalent to one another.
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