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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9005083.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.} ========================================================== %LANGUAGE WORD ARTICULATE PRIVATE REFLECT PERCEPT 900508 The language of objective relationships is easier to confirm than is a language adequate for clear description of reflexive relationships. Consider the common usage of the words: intimate, private, honest, affectionate, sexual, forbidden, taboo, collusive. They may all be used to point to aspects of a personal/reflexive relationship. In some societies all those aspects of life are so consistently associated with each other that the common associations are transferred over to the words and it is nearly impossible to use the words to point to important differences between various personal/reflexive relationships; because the meanings of the words are confused, fused together, indistinct. Aspects of personal/reflexive relationships which are commonly associated with each other in one culture, are not necessarily associated with each other in all cultures. It is helpful to have the use of a language in which there are words with which to point clearly to the differences between cultures, and to what associations are common within each culture's personal/reflexive relationships. We need to have the use of words with reasonably distinct meanings, else we are confused by the confusion (con-fusion) of meanings of words as used. It is exceedingly difficult to develop an effective language to point to differences between reflexive relationships when living in a community dominated by collusions regarding the values of objectivity, subjectivity and reflexivity. Collusions defend themselves by dishonesty and confusion. Authentic people who seek to develop a language by which to clearly point to differences between integrative and disintegrative personal/reflexive relationships are people who inevitably violate the taboos of those people imprisoned in the compulsively objective paradigm. It is reasonable to expect that people whose research lives revolve around the objective paradigm might be involved in collusions which would undermine the development of clear understandings regarding the meanings of words which would be useful in making distinctions between and among personal/reflexive relationships. By extension science teachers might naturally be involved in such collusions. It is not so obvious that it is likely for people involved in teaching the humanities to be involved in such collusions, for it would seem that they should be involved in helping to clarify differences between integrative and disintegrative personal relationships. However, participants in collusions do not respect the need for honesty and integrity; they are willing to sacrifice all in the name of maintaining good appearances. In a technocratic society the respect for technical manipulations extends into all aspects of life. The successes of scientists are so highly respected that people dealing with human relationships seek to copy many features of scientists' paradigm, and try to be thoroughly objective and quantitative. Many People thoughtlessly think that all truth is objective/quantitative truth, even as regards personal relationships. Many people do not recognize that there are many relationships which cannot be characterized with objective/quantitative language. So it happens that many people who are trained as humanists are trapped in the thought patterns of people imprisoned in the objective/quantitative paradigm; and even humanities teachers contribute to the confusing of the meanings of words which point to personal/reflexive relationships. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================