Vocabulary List:

(definitions from http://www.m-w.com)

• philosophy: a discipline comprising as its core logic, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
• reason:the power of comprehending, inferring, or thinking especially in orderly rational ways.
• irrational: not endowed with reason or understanding; not governed by or according to reason. (In our case the situation involving the use of emotion over reason)
• absurd: the state or condition in which human beings exist in an irrational and meaningless universe and in which human life has no ultimate meaning