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This-essay is a8002071.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %PERSONAL DIALOGUE ABOUT DESIRES 800207 It is one thing to engage in cognitive discourse about human desires; to describe them objectively, to note mathematical correlations, to analyze causes, etc. It is another thing to participate in personal dialogue in which personal desires are openly and honestly shared as gifts exchanged between intimate friends. In the former case there is no owning up to desires as personal realities which pertain to those engaged in the discourse. By collusion the cognitive analyzers pretend that they are being objective, maintaining their distance from that which they consider. Yet, all the time they are embarrassed by this dishonesty and inability to own up to their own personal desires, to bring them into a focus in a personal dialogue. They pretend that their personal desires are irrelevant to the discourse. What we can know of other persons' desires is pathetically little compared to what we can know of our own desires. Other peoples' desires tend to be hidden from us by their efforts to fulfill public expectations of them, to conform to public images of propriety as regards desires. The desires which other people reveal are often no more than distorted images of what they feel others expect them to desire. To regard revelations of other peoples' desires as reliable to the exclusion of our own perceptions of our own desires---is to engaged in collusive dishonesty. An unbiased understanding of human desires will involve an explication of the relationships between our own experience of our own desires---and our perceptions of the desires of other persons revealed to us openly and honestly in personal dialogue---which is not imprisoned in pretentions of analytic objectivity achieved by aloof distancing from the focus of attention. For these reasons we will not enjoy an unbiased understanding of human desires until we are guaranteed the right to be open and honest about our desires---without fear of punishment, shunning alienation, ostracism, excommunication, ridicule, etc. Fear represses the dialogue which is essential to understanding. The fear is not idle fear, it is founded upon experience. Only love can cast out the fear which stands in the way of human understanding. Knowledge gained in the absence of such love, but in the presence of fear, is meaningless knowledge. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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