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This-essay is a8503251.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 ========================================================== %FROM EXPERIENCES TO IDEALS VALUES AND DOGMA 850325 The ideals, values and dogma which a person accepts, creates and/or affirms ultimately flow from the personal experiences of the person; they are a response to those experiences. Intellectual endeavors, logic, and reasoning are efforts to make sense in some coherent way of those experiences; efforts to integrate them into a whole which appears to have integrity with the experiences. One person's ideals, values and dogma may not make sense to another person; not for lack of commonly agreed to logic, but for lack of common experiences. The differences in their experiences may be unknown to both, because both have experiences of which the other knows nothing. The greater the alienation and suspicion among people, the more experiences they will have which are unknown to others; e.g., because more taboos and collusions may be operating which inhibit the sharing of meaningful personal experiences. Due to such unshared experiences there are bound to be misunderstandings and disagreements about ideals, values and dogma. In the extreme such misunderstandings and disagreements are bound to erupt into destructive violence. In less extreme cases they are expressed in the less obvious violence of coercive efforts to control each other through manipulative technologies. Such efforts inhibit the dialogue which might occasion the sharing of experiences in terms of which to transcend the misunderstandings and disagreements. Dialogue is the way out of conflict, yet conflict is often permitted to undermine dialogue. Too often all the focus is placed upon ideals, values and dogma as if they were the ultimate realities. Yet they often obscure they very experiences which lead people to be so committed to said ideals, values and dogma. Any authority which obscures its own claim to authority is open to profound suspicion. Legitimate authority seeks to establish its own legitimacy in an open and honest way. Only illegitimate authority insists on obscuring its ground of being. (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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