caa a22 4500 38639377X CHVBK 20180307112129.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0360966900040512 doi S0360966900040512 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0360966900040512 Morrissey Michael P. College of St. Thomas Reason and Emotion: Modern and Classical Views on Religious Knowing [Elektronische Daten] [Michael P. Morrissey] The interdependence of mind and heart forms the basic dynamism in human consciousness. In modernity, however, this vital duality has often been obscured by the infamous dualism between reason and emotion, whereby reason is reduced to an abstract rationalism and emotion is identified with irrational passions—a view that has ancient roots. Given this confused state of affairs, the recovery of an authentic emotional life is not only essential for the preservation of human integrity but also for the possibility of authentic religious knowledge. This essay considers the work of John Macmurray, a rather neglected contemporary philosopher whose reflections on this matter remain worthy of study. Relating his personalist thought to Plato's preeminent myth of the erotic soul will serve to construct on solid footing a philosophy of consciousness that pays due respect to the Pascalian "reasons of the heart.” A wholistic understanding of human personality emerges, one based on an "emotional rationality” that is the condition for authentic human love and the incarnate medium for divine revelation. Copyright © The College Theology Society 1989 Horizons Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989), 275-291 0360-9669 16:2<275 1989 16 HOR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0360966900040512 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0360966900040512 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Morrissey Michael P. College of St. Thomas NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Horizons Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989), 275-291 0360-9669 16:2<275 1989 16 HOR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge