"Emotions do and should play a role in our reasoning:we cannot even begin to make good decisions if we don not consider the their significance in our emotional life."
Life the Epstein book says, we should use emotion when reasoning.This can be a little confusing though because if we always think with our emotion we may just make decisions bassed on instinced rather than a rationally thought out emotion. This is why emotions can be so tricky, and possibly the reason men believe that women are such a pain in the butt, but thats another story. Anyway your cant reason with out emotion, its just impossible.
Example:
I woke up sick today and I do not want to go to school today because I am in a bad mood because I wanted to go out tonight, I should just stay home and rest up for tonight.
This is not good reasoning, if you are sick going out at night would not help you get better any faster now would it.
the right thing to do=
I woke up sick today and even though I am mad because I want to go out tonight I will stay home and get my rest today so I can get better as soon as possible.
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Hard at Work, I really liked how you explained how we should use emotions in our reasoning. I agree we often use emotions to reason; more like justify our decisions even though we know that it isn't the right decision or reasoning. Your example is a perfect example that I think almost anyone can relate to. When we don't feel good we are more than willing to skip school or take a day off of work, but when it comes to our social life and fun things we want to do suddenly we aren't that sick any more, its classic. Guess my mom caught on to that concept a long long time ago cause it never seemed to work when I was a kid, if I stayed home from school then I stayed home at night too :)
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