Logic and emotions

Everyday life is always full of events that a person can organize and enjoy through the ability to think, to determine, to analyze and to feel. Logic and emotions are tightly connected in different senses of human life: at home doing common things, while studying or working, while driving back home, organizing a trip. Logic can be examined as a studying course in the framework of philosophy, or as a method of reasoning in everyday life. It dates back to Ancient Greece and Rome and still develops applying its rules to everyday life. By logic a person can more precisely and purely help to build the argumentation of some statements, as well as it can help to estimate other people arguments and to criticize. Emotions are part and parcel of everyday life and they are in dialectical interaction with logic. Some scholars research the topic of logic in emotions trying to study approaches and mechanisms of their appearance.

Logic is relevant in everyday life as it is related to performance of different kinds of works and professions. For example, being an air controller in the airport does not permit a person to be guided by emotions, because of responsibility and a duty to follow instructions clearly and strictly. Logic helps to construct reasoning and to make conclusions logically. It is important in science, law, technology (Introduction to Logic, 2014). At the same time, for some professions like an actor that cannot be imagined without expressing emotions, or an art critic that has subtle understanding of beauty, esthetics, or a chef that has delicate perception of tastes and of esthetics of food, logic is less important. For such creative people logic is present in performing technical and obviously needed actions to achieve result b...

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...en logic and emotions do not seem problematic when they are balanced: every person and audience has different range of perceptions of emotion or logic (The Rule of Balance, n. d.). In everyday life these tensions can be seen when a person buys something, for example, a new car. In this case a person is guided by emotions reflecting on desire and wishes and by logic when reflecting on price and better option for purchase. According to Solomon (1977) emotions are not a set of brainless or “stupid drives”, because he considered them as a “judgment” that interprets experience. Consequently emotions are “extremely subtle, cunning, sophisticated, cultured, learned, logical and intelligent” (Solomon, 1977). Emotions are something that can move a person, whereas logic is a reason for decision. They cannot be separated, as well as emotions cannot be stated as inappropriate.