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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9210222.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.} ========================================================== %OBJECTIVE IDEAL VALUE AFFIRM FOCUS EXCLUSIVE LEAD 921022 The more we become focused upon being objective in all of our actions, the less able we are to be open and honest in affirming our ideals and values. This is so because we cannot be objective in affirming our ideals and values---even if we want to affirm the importance of being objective. All ideals and values are essentially reflexive; i.e., are essentially non-objective in nature. Thus all affirmations of ideals and values (whether through statements or behaviors) are essentially reflexive. If we are compulsively dedicated to objectivity, we must pretend to be objective at all times; even at times when we are affirming our ideals and values. Thus we are lead into dishonest and collusive attitudes and patterns of behavior. Professors who have been trained to engage intensively in objective research within graduate school research programs are people who cannot honestly affirm their ideals and values to the next generation of professors---because they are not free to be openly reflexive (non-objective) in their affirmations of their ideals and values. They dishonestly pretend that they are being objective while they are making affirmations of the importance of objectivity. They are not openly reflexive on such occasions, and they do not invite their students to be honestly and openly reflexive in critical dialogue regarding reflexive affirmations made through statements and behaviors. Their students are encouraged to participate in collusive games of mutual self deception regarding the possibilities and impossibilities of objective attitudes and behaviors. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================