(August 5, 2012 at 3:18 pm)genkaus Wrote: Our emotions and feelings are not tools of cognition. They do not provide us knowledge. Any beliefs gained by pursuing emotional goals would, by their nature, be unreliable...Yes, of course, but that's not what I said. You have confused beliefs and values.
Beliefs/truth/knowledge should not, as you mention, be swayed by emotion.
Values, on the other hand, are not questions of fact, but matters of desire/preference/want. And these are matters of feeling.
Reason informs, and emotion moves. Both are necessary and interdependent for human activity.
We should, as you say, pursue truth and thereby find reliable beliefs. But no beliefs are ever certain. That was my point.
