Kristofer Carlson

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One may or may not be inclined to accept Scheler’s particular schema of values, but what is relevant about them to the division of the hemispheres is that the left hemisphere recognises only this lowest rank of value. Other values, which Scheler ranked higher than utility, such as bravery, beauty, intelligence, holiness, require an approach that is not tied exclusively to that tool of utility, sequential analytic logic (which is not the same necessarily as saying that they involve emotion).
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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