THEDUCHESSHAVOC
1/17/06 8:31 P
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Hey there, this is a theoretical problem you might wat to look at. One of your questions on the Diet personality profiles goes...
When it comes to important decisions I tend to focus more on...
1) Emotions and feelings
or
2) Logic and facts.
There is strong evidence in contemporary biology, antropology and philosophy that emotion is not seperate from logic, whatever else it may be it is a learning echanism, it leads our actions and is our motivation to direction. Logic is reliant upon emotion, and it guides us in establishing the facts. The dichotomy between logic and emotion was created when Descartes proferred a dualistic approach to the body and the mind, saying that logic was a part of the mind and emotions were part of the body. This has been disputed by such writers as Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Foucault, to Bourdieu, to name but a few; and the divide is hugely problematic because it can be seen to be a major cause of self-harm - "I am my mind, not my body, thus, I smoke, I drink, I sit watching the TV all day", it is a subtle influence but a strong one, like deep currents in a placid lake, and many have suggested it has led to a pathological society. For a full discussion of this subject I suggest Kay Milton's "Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion" (2002, an anthropological account of huanity and how we create our perceptions of our relations to ourselves and our environment.
Furthermore! In relation to question two, I don't ever eat at fast food outlets for ethical reasons.
This may seem trivial, but you are giving people assistance and new perceptions of their eating habiits which are based upon research which, I think, could afford to be more accurate.
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