Thinking Purely

To think purely is to disregard emotions, biases, our will, etc. However, what is good about disregarding our natural abilities in trying to achieve the truth? Maybe there is something good about it, maybe not.

Regardless, to think purely is a good exercise. If we see our rationality as a faculty that we can improve upon usage, it would be good to improve this faculty. Just like our physical muscles, we improve this quality by using them; using them in a particular way, in a pure way. An analogy is fitting here. Consider how we train our swimming, first we only use our leg to propel ourselves through the water to build up our leg techniques. Then we only use our hands when we train our hand techniques. Only then when we have mastered both can we swim skillfully. This is an example of a 'pure' training. Such training allows us to focus on a particular aspect of the thing that we want to learn. The same goes for thinking, when we detach our emotions from our thinking, we are essentially just training our thinking muscles without interruption from our emotions, such that our thinking techniques may be perfected before we synthesize it with everything else.

Perhaps a pure exercise of emotions may also be conducted. Such exercises are surely more complex and abstract, but I could think of an example. Try being moved by an art form without any thought.

Thus, here I am not proclaiming the supremeness of thought but I am merely advocating pure exercises for thinking and for emotions.