To the modernist claim that scientific and scholarly knowledge seeks objectivity by distancing itself from the emotions, Plato would probably have replied that such a separation of knowledge from feeling cannot yield anything like true knowledge. Certainly, reason must free itself from the thrall of the passions, but not from the exquisite and essential subtlety of the feeling/valuing component of the mind, a component which is an absolutely necessary part of authentic human reason.
- Jacob Needleman, The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders
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