An Argument Against “Moral Character” by Travis B. #5

Two: the logic that parallels the behavior does not indicate the exclusivity of that behavior to that cognition. “To act or not to act, that is the question,” as a premise does not justify the appropriateness of the question or the necessity of the act that results. The nature of the question has been reduced to neurological, biological, behavioral, and cognitive precepts the nature of the question but its NECESSITY is only apparent in neurological and behavioral terms. The compelling drive to act is thus reduced to a neuro-behavioral sequence irrespective of the cognitive-emotive correlates that attend it.

The cognitive correlates merely indicates our attempted rationale response to the phenomena whereas the emotional correlates indicate how we are responding to the question. To put it another way, the cognitive correlate of an action indicates strains of our attempt to attribute meaning to an action that was already impending. The emotional correlate of an action indicates our response to the action prior to it being carried out. The cognition at best attempts to control and harness the already impending action whereas the emotion primarily reacts to it; neither influences the behavior prior to its necessary onset. The emotive and cognitive sequences thus represents responses more so than antecedent deliberations of the action observed.