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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8701241.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %TABOO TESTING THEORY OF INTEGRITY 870124 People who are compulsively committed to being objective can not with integrity test their own theories about what it means to be coherent with human integrity. Any such theory is reflexive, pointing to one's own behavior. To be thoroughly objective one needs to avoid personal involvement in the subject of one's own investigation. Thus one's own behavior can not be the subject of one's own objective investigation. One can not objectively test one's own theories about the behavior of subjects which include one's own self. People who are compulsively committed to being objective thus must be participants in collusions which make it taboo to test theories about what it means to be coherent with human integrity. A commitment to be objective is a reflexive act. To be faithful to the commitment the committed people must inventory their own behaviors to see if they are being faithful to their commitment. If one is unaware of how well one's behavior conforms to the behavior specified in one's commitment, one can not correct for failures to live up to one's commitment. Thus those who are committed to objectivity need to be aware of how well they are fulfilling their commitment in order to fulfill their commitment. On the other hand, to inventory one's own behavior to check to see if your behavior is faithful to your own commitment---is not objective behavior. The subject of investigation is one's own behavior in which one is intimately involved. To examine one's own behavior involves one's own self emotionally in the subject of one's own investigation. Such behavior is taboo to the person who is compulsively committed to objectivity. Such a compulsive commitment leads to tragic double binds which lack integrity. The ideal of always being objective lacks integrity and undermines personal and communal integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================