We have been slaves of logic for too long…
Yesterday while watching “I Robot” I started thinking that the logical structure of our thoughts limits our perception of the world. For a second I asked myself if we took the right path (I know how irrationalism can be held responsible for the atrocities of World War II, but could there be another way?).
Vasconcelos said - I think it is the duty of an emotional race, much like ours, to lay the principles of interpreting the world through our emotions. However, emotions are expressed not in the categorical imperative, nor within reason but rather with aesthetic judgment, in particular the logic of emotions and beauty.
Indología p. 137
La Jaula de la Melancolía p. 136
This theory opposes both irrationalism (will as a guide) and rationalism (categorical imperative). What if we could deal with ethical problems from an aesthetic point of view? The beauty of life itself would seem sufficient to prove solutions would be rational. However we could end up with solutions that might differ from logical reasoning*.
The development of aesthetic judgment goes side by side to that of intuition. It may not be necessary to analyze a problem in all parts (positivism) if the intuitive solution proved an aesthetic character (this is where you must use emotions and senses to explain the decisions taken). This would turn intuition as a guide to life (the development of that intuition would intuitively be correct).
* Death from the aesthetic point of view receives characterizations as beautiful as life itself. Keeping life might not be the supreme goal of this theory.
Sincerely,
Gorka