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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / f. Emotion and reason

[relationship between emotions and reason]

11 ideas
Some say emotion is a sort of reason, and others say virtue concerns emotion [Plutarch]
Minds are subject to passions if they have inadequate ideas [Spinoza]
An emotion is only bad if it hinders us from thinking [Spinoza]
Every feeling is the perception of a truth [Leibniz]
We fail to see that reason is a network of passions, and every passion contains some reason [Nietzsche]
It is reason which needs the anchorage of passions, rather than vice versa [Solomon]
Dividing ourselves into confrontational reason and passion destroys our harmonious whole [Solomon]
The supposed irrationality of our emotions is often tactless or faulty expression of them [Solomon]
Emotions are usually very apt, rather than being non-rational and fickle [Flanagan]
Some emotions are direct responses, and neither rational nor irrational [Goldie]
Emotional thought is not rational, but it can be intelligible [Goldie]