The mind and body are viewed as one, as a whole that cannot be divided into parts.
Tension in the mind can make one’s arms and legs shake, or cause one’s cheeks to turn red, and fear can make one’s face turn white. And so on.
YOUTH: Well, sure, there are parts of the mind and body that are connected.
PHILOSOPHER: The same holds true for reason and emotion, and the conscious mind and the unconscious mind as well.
A normally coolheaded person doesn’t expect to have a fit of violent emotion and start shouting at someone.
We are not struck by emotions that somehow exist independently from us. Each of us is a unified whole.
YOUTH: No, that is not true. It is precisely because we have the ability to view mind and body, reason and emotion,
and the conscious and the unconscious mind as clearly separate from each other that we can gain a correct understanding of people. Isn’t that a given?
PHILOSOPHER: Certainly it is true that the mind and the body are separate things,
that reason and emotion are different, and that both the conscious mind and the unconscious mind exist.
That said, however, when one flies into a rage and shouts at another person, it is “I as a whole” who is choosing to shout.
One would never think of emotions that somehow exist independently—unrelated to one’s intentions, as it were—as having produced that shouting voice.
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