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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9004052.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.} ========================================================== %INTERNALIZE EXTERNAL OBJECT CONSCIENCE KNOW SELF 900405 The objectivists' paradigm discounts non-objective knowledge. According to their paradigm, knowledge of self which is not based upon objective evidence is unreliable knowledge, and should not be taken seriously. They do not make clear what objective knowledge is the basis of their judgement that non-objective value judgments (including their own) should not be taken seriously. The advantage/disadvantage of the objectification of con-science (conscience) is that it makes for the internalization of external sources of value judgments; e.g., internalization of the values of participants in collusive addictions and codependent support networks. If people are taught not to trust their own feelings, they lose touch with themselves and become purely "other- directed", and vulnerable to peer pressures within addictive/codependent networks of confused co- manipulators. People who have been objectified regard themselves as objects bumping into each other in impersonal interactions in the manner of billiard balls. They react to each other rather than respond to each other. There is nothing personal inside them which is present in a personal way and capable of a personal response. What is inside them is but an image of what is outside them; it is not unique and is free of any con-science, devoid of self-knowledge. Objectified non-persons do not hear any unique internal voice of conscience, and instead hear only the echoes of voices of addicts' and codependents' manipulations. The Spirit of God has been stilled in them and they hear only the echoes of inter-personal manipulations and coercions. They are victims of their own and others' attempts to be in control of self and others. As fearful victims they are not personally responsive, because they are always defensively reacting to each other's manipulations. They have no genuine conscience, because they are not participating honestly in authentic personal dialogue. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================