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The Border Between Feeling and Thinking
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Open in the appHarry Wolf and Nicola Condoleo Thinking and feeling are often understood as opposites: here reason, there emotion. For a long time, this opposition was even attributed to the genders. Such notions persist to this day – for example, when men are assumed to be unable to talk about… Harry Wolf and Nicola Condoleo Thinking and feeling are often understood as opposites: here reason, there emotion. For a long time, this opposition was even attributed to the genders. Such notions persist to this day – for example, when men are assumed to be unable to talk about their feelings, or women are considered too emotional. But is this separation actually accurate? What happens when we think, and what when we feel? Can we think without feeling, or feel without judgments and thoughts already being involved? How are thinking and feeling connected, and where can they be distinguished? Harry Wolf and Nicola Condoleo from the Zurich Institute for Philosophical Practice ZIPPRA open up a thinking space this evening in which these questions are discussed together and examined from different perspectives.