Linking Motherhood and Morality - Anna Funder

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/12/Anna_Funder_on_Courage

In light of the birth of her daughter, author Anna Funder shares her personal experience with courage and morality. Funder believes motherhood has taught her a visceral "gut" understanding of good and bad.

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Anna Funder delivers the third public lecture in the 2008 series of Sydney PEN Voices: The 3 Writers Project.

She will speak on the subject of COURAGE on Wednesday 12 November 2008 in Sydney (followed by a conversation with Tom Keneally) - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Anna Funder, born 1966, is an Australian writer who grew up in Melbourne. She studied creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney, also later studying at the Free University of Berlin as the recipient in 1994 of a DAAD Scholarship (German Government Academic Exchange Service Award). In 1995 after the Berlin Wall came down she applied for and received a Fellowship from the AGA to return to Germany. Funder has worked as an international lawyer and in public relations for a German overseas television service in Berlin. Living and working in Berlin inspired her to write her first book, the non-fiction work Stasiland, which explores the machinations of the secret police known as the Stasi in the former German Democratic Republic. She was awarded the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2004.

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[AtheistEvolution]

You are absolutely not wrong! We should however try to minimize that effect as much as we can.

Emotion can skew the truth, but clearly you are right.

[humanist7117]

Every decision one makes has an emotional component.

[humanist7117]

That is a very emotional statement!!

[humanist7117]

You need both.

[AtheistEvolution]

Seems if reason is truth, then unreasonable emotion can only serve to add discord to that truth.

Clearly no one wants to live without emotion but lets try to keep it out of decisions. Emotional decisions and reactions are usually the terribly made ones.

Lets let emotion do its part where it is called for, and reason do what it was meant to do. That is make decisions and decipher truth.

Peace

[Inupiatun]

Id much rather have reason than emotion.

[justforwatchingcraps]

emotion not kept in check by reason is destructive, reason is truth...

[ohmandamp]

Would you care to elaborate?

[humanist7117]

Reason without emotion is impotent.