Emotions do cause us to apprehend and perceive things in a certain way and even to act accordingly. Granted, there are strong, perhaps necessary, connections between emotions and knowledge and, in this respect, emotions are ways of perceiving the world and interacting with it. Perhaps emotions are even rational strategies of adaptation and survival and not stochastic, isolated inter-psychic events. Perhaps Plato was wrong in saying that emotions conflict with reason and thus obscure the right way of apprehending reality. As we have it in psychoanalysis, emotions may be reactions to the unconscious rather than to the world.
Emotions sometimes mislead.
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