Can anyone explain to me the meaning of “the edge of reason”? I’m trying to search for the meaning but couldn’t find it anywhere. (I’m not a native English speaker) Thank you!
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“Our two minds …. One is an act of the emotional
mind, the other of the rational mind. In a very
real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and
one that feels” (Daniel Goleman, Emotional
Intelligence, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1996,
page 8). The rational mind is also called the
faculty of logic and reason.
The Upanishads say that these two are opposite in
nature. Emotions appear irrational. Rationality
seems to lack emotions. Modern psychologist also
have observed it, but they are not very sure about
it:
“At the same time, reason sometimes clearly seems
to come into conflict with some desires (even
while not being in conflict with others) giving us
the impression that reason is separate from
emotion”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason
Emotion has usually, in the European- American tradition,
been seen as the opposite of reason.
Emotion is generally regarded by Western civilization as the
antithesis of reason. This distinction stems from Western
philosophy, specifically Cartesian dualism and modern
interpretations of Stoicism, and is reflected in common
phrases like appeal to emotion or your emotions have taken
over.
http://www.answers.com/emotion
Edge of reason means almost on the point of loosing rationality.