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'''Irrationality''' is [[cognition]], thinking, talking, or acting without [[rationality]]. |
'''Irrationality''' is [[cognition]], thinking, talking, or acting without [[rationality]]. |
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Irrationality often has a negative connotation, as thinking and actions that are less useful or more illogical than other more rational alternatives.<ref>[[Margaret Mead|Mead, Margaret]]. ''Male and Female: The Classic Study of the Sexes'' (1949) Quill (HarperCollins) 1998 edition: {{ISBN|0-688-14676-7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1177/105649269431012|title = Castrating the Female Advantage|journal = Journal of Management Inquiry|volume = 3|pages = 74–82|year = 1994|last1 = Fletcher|first1 = Joyce K.|s2cid = 145589766}}</ref> The concept of irrationality is especially important in [[Albert Ellis (psychologist)|Albert Ellis]]'s [[rational emotive behavior therapy]], where it is characterized specifically as the tendency and leaning that humans have to act, emote and think in ways that are inflexible, unrealistic, absolutist and most importantly self-defeating and socially defeating and destructive.<ref>Ellis, Albert (2001). ''Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy''. [[Prometheus Books]].{{page needed|date=December 2019}}{{ISBN?}}</ref> |
Irrationality often has a negative connotation, as thinking and actions that are less useful or more illogical than other more rational alternatives.<ref>[[Margaret Mead|Mead, Margaret]]. ''Male and Female: The Classic Study of the Sexes'' (1949) Quill (HarperCollins) 1998 edition: {{ISBN|0-688-14676-7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1177/105649269431012|title = Castrating the Female Advantage|journal = Journal of Management Inquiry|volume = 3|pages = 74–82|year = 1994|last1 = Fletcher|first1 = Joyce K.|s2cid = 145589766}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=peak |first=Esteem |date=2024-07-08 |title=Irrational manner with examples |url=https://esteempeak.com/irrational-manner-with-examples/ |access-date=2024-07-13 |website=Esteempeak |language=en-US}}</ref> The concept of irrationality is especially important in [[Albert Ellis (psychologist)|Albert Ellis]]'s [[rational emotive behavior therapy]], where it is characterized specifically as the tendency and leaning that humans have to act, emote and think in ways that are inflexible, unrealistic, absolutist and most importantly self-defeating and socially defeating and destructive.<ref>Ellis, Albert (2001). ''Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy''. [[Prometheus Books]].{{page needed|date=December 2019}}{{ISBN?}}</ref> |
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However, irrationality is not always viewed as a negative. Much subject matter in literature can be seen as an expression of human longing for the irrational. The [[Romanticism|Romantics]] valued irrationality over what they perceived as the sterile, calculating and emotionless philosophy which they thought to have been brought about by the [[Age of Enlightenment]] and the [[Industrial Revolution]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Steven |last=Kreis |url=http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture16a.html |title=Lecture 16: The Romantic Era |publisher=Historyguide.org |date=2009-08-04 |access-date=2012-12-08}}</ref> [[Dada]] [[Surrealist]] art movements embraced irrationality as a means to "reject reason and logic". [[André Breton]], for example, argued for a rejection of pure logic and reason which are seen as responsible for many contemporary social problems.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screensite.org/courses/Jbutler/T340/SurManifesto/ManifestoOfSurrealism.htm |title=Manifesto of Surrealism |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401002841/http://www.screensite.org/courses/Jbutler/T340/SurManifesto/ManifestoOfSurrealism.htm |archive-date=2009-04-01 |website=ScreenSite |year=1999 |orig-year=First published 1924 |first=André |last=Breton |access-date=2014-01-29}}</ref> |
However, irrationality is not always viewed as a negative.<ref>{{Cite web |last=peak |first=Esteem |date=2024-07-08 |title=Irrational manner with examples |url=https://esteempeak.com/irrational-manner-with-examples/ |access-date=2024-07-13 |website=Esteempeak |language=en-US}}</ref> Much subject matter in literature can be seen as an expression of human longing for the irrational. The [[Romanticism|Romantics]] valued irrationality over what they perceived as the sterile, calculating and emotionless philosophy which they thought to have been brought about by the [[Age of Enlightenment]] and the [[Industrial Revolution]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Steven |last=Kreis |url=http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture16a.html |title=Lecture 16: The Romantic Era |publisher=Historyguide.org |date=2009-08-04 |access-date=2012-12-08}}</ref> [[Dada]] [[Surrealist]] art movements embraced irrationality as a means to "reject reason and logic". [[André Breton]], for example, argued for a rejection of pure logic and reason which are seen as responsible for many contemporary social problems.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screensite.org/courses/Jbutler/T340/SurManifesto/ManifestoOfSurrealism.htm |title=Manifesto of Surrealism |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401002841/http://www.screensite.org/courses/Jbutler/T340/SurManifesto/ManifestoOfSurrealism.htm |archive-date=2009-04-01 |website=ScreenSite |year=1999 |orig-year=First published 1924 |first=André |last=Breton |access-date=2014-01-29}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
Revision as of 00:53, 13 July 2024
Irrationality is cognition, thinking, talking, or acting without rationality.
Irrationality often has a negative connotation, as thinking and actions that are less useful or more illogical than other more rational alternatives.[1][2][3] The concept of irrationality is especially important in Albert Ellis's rational emotive behavior therapy, where it is characterized specifically as the tendency and leaning that humans have to act, emote and think in ways that are inflexible, unrealistic, absolutist and most importantly self-defeating and socially defeating and destructive.[4]
However, irrationality is not always viewed as a negative.[5] Much subject matter in literature can be seen as an expression of human longing for the irrational. The Romantics valued irrationality over what they perceived as the sterile, calculating and emotionless philosophy which they thought to have been brought about by the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.[6] Dada Surrealist art movements embraced irrationality as a means to "reject reason and logic". André Breton, for example, argued for a rejection of pure logic and reason which are seen as responsible for many contemporary social problems.[7]
See also
Notes
- ^ Mead, Margaret. Male and Female: The Classic Study of the Sexes (1949) Quill (HarperCollins) 1998 edition: ISBN 0-688-14676-7
- ^ Fletcher, Joyce K. (1994). "Castrating the Female Advantage". Journal of Management Inquiry. 3: 74–82. doi:10.1177/105649269431012. S2CID 145589766.
- ^ peak, Esteem (8 July 2024). "Irrational manner with examples". Esteempeak. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
- ^ Ellis, Albert (2001). Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. Prometheus Books.[page needed][ISBN missing]
- ^ peak, Esteem (8 July 2024). "Irrational manner with examples". Esteempeak. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
- ^ Kreis, Steven (4 August 2009). "Lecture 16: The Romantic Era". Historyguide.org. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
- ^ Breton, André (1999) [First published 1924]. "Manifesto of Surrealism". ScreenSite. Archived from the original on 1 April 2009. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
References
- Stuart Sutherland Irrationality: Why We Don't Think Straight, 1992, reissued 2007 by Pinter & Martin ISBN 978-1-905177-07-3
- William B. Helmreich (2011). What Was I Thinking? The Dumb Things We Do and How to Avoid Them. Taylor. ISBN 978-1589795976.
- Lisa Bortolotti, Irrationality, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2014 [ISBN missing]
External links
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- Craig R. M. McKenzie. Rational models as theories – not standards – of behavior. Trends in Cognitive Sciences Vol.7 No.9 September 2003
- REBT-CBT NET – Internet Guide to Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy