Emotion vs. Reason

Emotion is an internal decision. It is one's mind, sometimes consciously and sometimes subconsciously, balancing, integrating and juggling various different, and often conflicting, facts, experiences and concepts. It is a subjective, psychological experience, correlated with a group of physiological reactions arising in response to some situation. It is often held that one can have no emotional self-control, that an emotion cannot be consciously willed to occur at any particular time, that emotions are in no way influenced by what one thinks and learns, but accounts differ as to the extent to which one can learn and train oneself or be trained over time to intentionally influence emotions. (Jakub, 2001)
In an experience of emotion there are thoughts, feelings, or affection, response for example sadness, anger, joy and determination, a physiological response which are changes in internal bodily functioning, a cognitive response   which is an interpretation of the situation, and possibly also a behavioral response; an outward expression. (Mesquita, 1992)
In philosophy, reason which comes from Latin ratio, by way of French raison is the faculty by means of which or the process through which human beings perform thought, especially abstract thought. Many thinkers have pondered reason, and the various views on the nature of reason may not be compatible with one another.(Mesquita, 1992)
Reason is sometimes narrowly defined as the faculty or process of drawing logical inferences. From Aristotle onwards, such reasoning has been classified as either deductive reasoning, meaning "from the general to the particular", or inductive reasoning, meaning "from the particular to the general". In the 19th century, Charles Peirce, an American philosopher, added a third classification, abductive reasoning, by which he meant "from the best available information to the best explanation", which has become an important component of the scientific method. In modern usage, "inductive... [continues]

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