Our Past, Present, And Future In Nature. Emotion Over Reason, Reason Over Emotion? Suddenly seeing a snake in your path, followed by a fixed wide-eyed stare, muscle tenseness, increased heart rate, perhaps a jump backwards, are emotionally reflexive responses, not deliberative or reasoned choices and actions. There is little if any deliberative, choice-making reasoning occurring in this instance. More generally, consider the matter of individual survival or wellbeing and group flourishing .

Religion and Culture for the Intellectually Impatient. As with all orchestrated media splashes, the original story having done its work, not many people will pay attention to the unraveling of the growing mythology surrounding the discovery.

An evolving guide to practical Stoicism for the 21st century. 8220;Avoid fraternizing with non-philosophers. If you must, though, be careful not to sink to their level; because, you know, if a companion is dirty, his friends cannot help but get a little dirty too, no matter how clean they started out. I have thought about both .