Justification for Foundational Belief

[Skepsis]

Please dont misunderstand me here, I'm not insinuating that emotion would be a better arbitrator of knowledge as we currently define it, but as a functional piece of humanity- they work pretty damned well.

What has been placed on the table is emotion as foundation belief. That is, it is the best informant of action and ought to be treated thus. In humanities search for knowledge (true knowledge), emotion plays no part. Sure, it's a large part of what it means to be human, but that doesn't make it relevant. In fact, the only case in which emotion is ignored is in the search for foundational values, where intuition plays a large part as the crane by which humans survive when there is no need for or no possible use of emotion or logic. Foundationally, needs have the highest value in the information of behavior because they inform intuition and logic and emotion. Emotional goals can only be treated as valuable after survival is ensured.

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Fulfillment of needs is clearly the foundational value which determines a person's actions. The Hierarchy of Needs is a good example of this, in which emotional needs are explicitly placed above survival. Emotions inform survival, a fundamental need above all needs. If emotions are a tool to achieve an end they cannot be fundamentally valuable and instead are valuable as a means to an end.