{"id":120834,"date":"2024-01-13T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=120834"},"modified":"2024-01-15T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T16:19:52","slug":"reason-and-emotion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/reason-and-emotion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason and Emotion: How to Decide Which to Listen To"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How do you know whether reason or emotion is the right voice to listen to? What&#8217;s the best way to make decisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/reason-and-emotion\/\">Reason and emotion<\/a> both have a role to play in making decisions and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/living-a-good-life\/\">living a good life<\/a>, and philosophers have suggested choosing reason over emotion or aligning reason and emotion. Understanding each of these perspectives can help you live life better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading for more on living a rational life and balancing reason with emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-good-life-is-aligned-with-reason\">A Good Life Is Aligned With Reason<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One perspective on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-makes-a-good-life\/\">what makes a good life<\/a> involves <em>living rationally<\/em>\u2014<strong>considering the options available to you, weighing their possible outcomes, and choosing the best option<\/strong>\u2014rather than making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/moral-choices\/\">moral decisions<\/a> based on momentary whims, impulses, or intuitions. Reason and emotion are not equally reliable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius and ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle offer two different approaches to living a good, rational life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-choose-reason-over-emotion\">1) Choose Reason Over Emotion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Marcus Aurelius (<a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/meditations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Meditations<\/em><\/a>) believes <strong>a good, rational life is lived strictly according to reason and nothing else<\/strong>. He explains that <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/meditations\/books-4-6#always-remember-logos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the universe itself functions according to reason alone<\/a>\u2014that is, rules and systems work in harmony to ensure that whatever is supposed to happen, happens. Therefore, by living in alignment with reason, you become in harmony with the universe and your role in it. This makes you not only morally good but also good at the \u201cjob\u201d of existing as a human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-to-harmonize-with-the-universe-eliminate-negative-emotion\">To Harmonize With the Universe, Eliminate Negative Emotion<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>To be fully in harmony with the universe, Marcus Aurelius explains, <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/meditations#recognize-that-outside-forces-cant-hurt-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">you must strive to eliminate all negative emotions<\/a>. According to him, <strong>feeling negative emotions is a choice: These emotions don\u2019t come from external events, which are out of your control, but instead from your <em>interpretation <\/em>of those events, which <em>are<\/em> in your control.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For example, Bob steps on John\u2019s foot. John can choose to interpret this event in multiple ways: He could assume Bob meant him harm, an interpretation that would make him angry at Bob. Or he could assume it was an accident, an interpretation that wouldn\u2019t make him angry. Either way, John\u2019s emotional reaction is to his interpretation of Bob\u2019s action, not to the action itself.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After establishing that feeling negative emotion is a choice, Marcus Aurelius stresses it\u2019s never the <\/strong><strong><em>correct <\/em><\/strong><strong>choice\u2014there\u2019s no logical reason to experience negative emotion.<\/strong>&nbsp; Even if you suffer extreme misfortune or someone is trying their hardest to harm you, getting upset, angry, or afraid won\u2019t change those realities. Giving in to negative emotions will only distract you from making the best, most logical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/personal-life-choices\/\">choices in life<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-align-reason-and-emotion\">2) Align Reason and Emotion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike Marcus Aurelius, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle\u2019s (<a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/nicomachean-ethics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Nicomachean Ethics<\/em><\/a>) <strong>ideal rational life allows for emotion\u2014but <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/nicomachean-ethics\/1-page-summary#developing-moral-virtue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>only after you\u2019ve \u201ctrained\u201d your emotions to align with reason<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> In other words, if you rationally think something is moral, you\u2019ll feel positively about it. But if you rationally think something is immoral, you\u2019ll feel negatively about it. Aristotle believes aligning emotion and reason\u2014rather than eliminating emotion\u2014is important because a good person isn\u2019t emotionally unaffected by moral goods and evils. They desire good and are repulsed by evil, and these emotions help motivate them to live morally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, good person Alex sees a child being mistreated by their parents. Rationally, he knows mistreating children is immoral and that stepping in is the moral thing to do. Emotionally, he feels upset seeing the child being mistreated and desires the mistreatment to stop. His reason tells him what to do and his emotions inspire him to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you know whether reason or emotion is the right voice to listen to? What&#8217;s the best way to make decisions? 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