Shumo Zhao
Prof. Aghabegian
English 1
Feb 27, 2013
Reasoning and Emotion
Most people prefer reasoning to emotion in everyday life. They think that people should have more reasoning than emotion because reasoning symbolizes the wisdom. They also claim that most scientific researches are almost purely based on rigorous reasoning. However, most people have underestimated the importance of emotion, which makes people cry and laugh. Moreover, emotional parts also exist in the scientific researches because it can provide people with intuition and inspiration. Emotion, which is a pejorative term for most people, still has its advantages: it makes people passionate; it creates involuntary actions in minds; it makes people sensational about the surroundings; it also stimulates intuition and inspiration.
Emotion can make people passionate whereas reasoning often provides people indifference about the environment. Most scientists, especially who are specialists in math and physics, tend to only focus on their research topics. They have the strongest abilities in reasoning, but they tend to be indifference about their personal life. There are many scientists who never care about their appearances. Some of them are thinking about their researches except when they are sleeping. Scientists are often linked with the prototype of reasoning, and they often neglect the importance of emotion. Emotion means people sometimes do things without any specific reasons, which makes people passionate in their life. In terms of love, there are many people who fall in love even if they only see their lovers once. This kind of love often lacks reasons because it is merely inspiration and intuition. Having passion to seek lovers has nothing wrong. In fact, love is often initiated with coincidence. Love is the thing that people have to own passion instead of reasoning because most people will