Have you ever felt that you should lying on the bed instead of going to work? Why are you crying when the one who is close to you was dead? Emotions lead heavily role in making decisions. We tend to choose what we please and avoid what we dislike, which sometimes conflict with logical sense. So, the question is “Don’t they come from nowhere?” and “Are emotions irrational?”. Before further discussing in rationality, let us first discuss about “emotion”. Emotions, in our common sense, are the states of feeling, for example anger, fear and joy, which express in behavior. This topic has being discussed since ancient time and there were many philosophers explain emotions separated from reasoning. Plato analogizes emotion and reasoning as two horses pulling the chariot. The charioteer would control those two horses into the direct way. What it comes to my mind is “Can the emotion be irrational, separating it from reasoning completely? Do emotions and rationality are false dichotomy?“.
P1: If emotions are irrational, they cannot be explained in some logical way.
P2: Emotions can be explained through evolution.
C: Emotions are rational.