“The very effort to shape experiences into a pattern assumes a caring about other human beings, a caring which is a form of love.”
--Mona van Duyn (1921-2004), winner Pulitzer prize for poetry, 1991
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Intuition precedes rationality and implicit knowledge precedes explicit (McGilchrist). Beauty leads to truth (Balthasar). Emotion drives moral reasoning (Haidt). Reason is the slave of the passions (Hume).
A few stiff drinks after the work week stifles my rationality, lets me see truth, and makes my reason the happy slave of passion. I d…