Rationality Vs Emotion...
How about Conscience?
"the faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right;"
What is wrong and what is right?
Derived from reasoning or driven by emotion?
Problem of morality.
Ethics Philosophy of mind Social philosophy
William Shakespeare's Richard III:
"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain."
William Whewell:
"As science means knowledge, conscience etymologically means self-knowledge . . . But the English word implies a moral standard of action in the mind as well as a consciousness of our own actions. . . . Conscience is the reason, employed about questions of right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation and condemnation."
ATLL and i presume many others:
"Conscience = Con-Science"
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