John Macmurray

Macmurray, Feeling and Reason: The Importance of Emotion in Public and Private Life

Can social media become (or be encouraged to become) more reasonably emotional?

“The education of the emotions … consists in the cultivation of a direct sensitiveness to the reality of the world around us. The reason why our emotional life is so underdeveloped, is that we habitually suppress a great deal of our sensitiveness and train our children from their earliest years to suppress much of their own. … We are afraid of what would be revealed to us if we did not” (Reason and Emotion 1935, p 24).

“In the field of personal relations knowledge depends upon emotion, and upon mutual emotion; people must care for one another before they can know one another” (Search For a Faith, BBC radio broadcast #6 ‘Religion and Personal Relationship’ 10th May 1945).

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