Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site moscom.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!ritcv!moscom!jens From: jens@moscom.UUCP (Jens Fiederer) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Ayn Rand's definitions of force and reason Message-ID: <617@moscom.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 03:34:10 EST Article-I.D.: moscom.617 Posted: Mon Dec 30 03:34:10 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Jan-86 05:40:35 EST References: <1482@hound.UUCP> <1910@psuvax1.UUCP> <309@l5.uucp> <1915@psuvax1.UUCP> <332@l5.uucp> Reply-To: jens@moscom.UUCP (Jens Fiederer) Organization: MOSCOM Corp, E Rochester, NY, USA Lines: 8 Dear Laura: You may get emotional about conflicts between different rationalities. Occassionally, I do, too. More commonly the reason/emotion relationship runs in the other direction -- my emotions are fired by operational imperatives (food, Coca-Cola(original formula), sex, activity), whereupon reason steps in to formulate a strategy to maximize the positive emotions. Azhrarn