Logic, Emotion and Intuition: A Search for Balance

Since the time of the Greeks, Western philosophy has privileged the use of logic and evidence over emotion in our decision-making process and in our personal lives. But can the two be so easily separated? And where does intuition fit into the equation?

Judy Hook is a retired teacher and a 15 year member of UUFD who spent her high school and college years as a smart-alecky debater who thought that the world should run on logic. Then marriage, a melodrama and a child made her start to question that assumption. She still doesn’t know whether intuition can be relied upon, however.

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