thinking with feelings

Authors

  • álvaro márquez-fernández

Keywords:

Pensar, sentimientos, vida, co-razón.

Abstract

Thinking is to reason with sensibility. We feel the feelings with the heart (In Spanish: co-razón: co-reason), through the impulses of our rational intuitions. Whenever we think with sensibility, we do it from a place in which the feelings give rise to affections, in other words, to this world of assimilation of the perceptible reality’s sensations that make us more subject than objects of ideas. Reasoning with feelings is different than reasoning rationally. It is to think with the imagination and the fantasy, illusion and metaphors, with the trans-physical reality of the sensitive ideas. The emotion is the first step to think sensitively Emotion is the first cause of sensitive thought; his origin and fertility, it impregnates it with histories and destinies its origin and fertility impregnates thought with histories and destinies. It is to live another worldliness, where the felt and re-felt world turns into a freedom that make us become and create in a much more free and autonomous way, without restrictions or cognitive frontiers. To think with tenderness is an expectation opened to reality in its aesthetic and dramatic dimension, where the passion that Life is, has the pleasure to feel the affections of feeling.

Published

2009-06-16

How to Cite

márquez-fernández, álvaro. (2009). thinking with feelings. Childhood & Philosophy, 4(7), pp. 13–22. Retrieved from https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/childhood/article/view/20534

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