In this book, Macmurray develops with exceptional clarity his views on reason and emotion as interdependent, rather than opposed aspects of human personality. Underlying the lectures collected in this volume and giving them their unity is Macmurray's conviction that the contrast we habitually draw between "reason" and "emotion" is false and leads to the erroneous conclusion that our emotional life is irrational and must remain so. The proper contrast, Macmurray stresses, lies between "intellect" and "emotion", while "reason", as that which makes us human, expresses itself in both.
- ISBN10 0391037293
- ISBN13 9780391037298
- Publish Date December 1991 (first published 15 May 1972)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S.
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 296
- Language English