¿Qué es la razón? Reflexión filosófica

Reason is the faculty that makes the things of the world intelligible. What, then, is intelligence? Inter- between, Legere- to choose; therefore, intelligence is to choose the starting point from which the structure of rational thought will be woven. The minimal unit of all discourse is the axiom, which means the proposition upon which all propositions rest. Reason is also a tool of nature that allows survival through understanding the world, a method preceded by emotions that pursues the same objective. In the West, reason is artificially defined and delimited through contrast with emotions, even though they are not contrary but complementary mechanisms.