Can true knowledge be separated from emotions? ?

Feminist epistemology assert that emotions are an underlying part of our observations, believing that all judgement perceived from raw data is still inseparable from emotions. In particular Jaggar's argument that logical positivists are falsely laboring under the 'myth of the dispassionate observer' shows that all arguments are constructed from biases making the conclusions inseparable. She goes so far as to say that emotions can pave a new way of thinking about truths in knowledge.





What do you people think, is possible to gain true knowledge by combining emotions or can we conclude that emotions impede rational and empirical methods of discovering knowledge? Can true knowledge be separated from emotions? ?
Not in a fully functioning human. There are abnormal humans that do. There are decisions that need to be determined dispassionately, but these are merely another form of emotional behavior. The abnormal feels absolutely nothing. There is a total inability to identify with the victim.Can true knowledge be separated from emotions? ?
I remember reading about this one disorder called prosogapnosia where people with this disorder could not identify faces because of some type of a brain injury that broke the synapses from the face identifying section of their brain to the amygdala which forms and stores memories associated with emotional events. Well what basically happened is that when they saw members of their family or anyone they knew they could not identify them because they did not experience the emotional surge that one feels when seeing faces that one recognizes. They knew it looked like their mother, because the face recognizing part of their brain was working, but because they did not ';feel'; like it was their mother they concluded that it must be an impostor. All this is to say that emotions are definitely necessary in obtaining some knowledge... As for emotions paving new ways of thinking about truths in knowledge I don't know... I cant really think of a situation in which that would be applicable... I guess you could say that emotion and instincts stem off of experience and are thus logical in that sense but I think you still have to be weary and use emotion in conjunction with reason
An excellent question. I don't know if you can attain knowledge and not run into some type of emotion. Whatever you read and learn depends on what kind of knowledge you want to attain. If you wanted to learn about the Irish culture you would run into some type of emotion if you wanted to learn about the Irish philosophy and government. I think it all depends on what you desire to learn. At times I do think emotion can run into attaining knowledge due to the person who writes on a certain topic you want to learn. I don't know if that makes any sense to you. If you want to learn about the ancient people and how they survived you would learn simple knowledge of what kind food there was to survive on and how they lived. I don't know if emotion would enter into that.
That's what I think. I think to see ';what is'; you need to view life dispassionately, instead of reacting, like when you think of yourself and your problems, conflicts, etc, look at it like you were looking at a stick of wood, or a rock on the ground.
Feelings are fickle and will not teach you anything. Do what is right until it feels right. Truth is not knowable from culture. One culture loves their neighbor, the other eats theirs. Truth must come from outside the system. Truth can only come from God.
Yes, isn't this exactly what the American Health Care System is all about ? Aren't doctors that way ?Do I like it, no way !
what is word jane? find words' nature .as it underpins all thinking.
Er... in plain English?