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This-essay is a8507271.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 ========================================================== %IMPORTANCE OF SELF-REFERENTIAL BEHAVIOR 850727 The extent of a scientist's dedication to thoroughgoing objectivity is a measure of the extent that the scientist is likely to regard self-referential behavior as important and worthy of respect. The fanatically objective person is likely to try to avoid all appearance of participating in self-referential behavior, regardless of the actual reality. To the fanatically objective person even mature self-referential behavior is likely to be regarded as taboo and beyond the bounds of legitimate discussion. It is not "real". It is not fit for human consideration. Only that which is objectively real is worth spending time on. Scientists with a more balanced conception of themselves and their relationships with their environment are not so exclusive as regards the kinds of relationships and behaviors they will participate in. Balanced scientists acknowledge that they are participants in all relationships about which they know anything. To know about a relationships is to be a participant in the relationship. To know about an object is to have been a participant in a relationship which has involved the object. The more tenuous the relationship with the object the less profound is the knowledge about the object. We can know the subject of our knowledge only in proportion to the depth of our involvement in mutual relationships with the subject of our knowing. To demand that knowledge be gained only be relationships which are not mutual, not reciprocal, is to exclude possible avenues for the acquisition of information. Objectivity as a way of knowing is not mutual. There is a clean distinction between the knower and the known. The object is presumed not to know anything and not to be a real participant in the same way that the knower is a participant. The relation is presumed to be exclusively I-It in nature; Subject-object. The possibility of an I-Thou relationships is on principle excluded. It is taboo. Scientists participate in I-Thou relationships inversely as they regard I-It relationships to be exclusively important, worth their attention. If they have decided that only I-It relationships are worthy of their attention because they involve an absolute minimum of self-referential behavior, it is very important to their sense of self-importance and self-image to avoid reflecting upon themselves as being particularly admirable --- for successfully avoiding self-referential behavior and value discussions. (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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