Monday, August 16, 2010

The Collective Subjective

The Collective Subjective


Why is it that philosophers value objectivity over subjectivity? Science as well. It seems to be that the two are married and cannot be separated without mutilating the truth.

Perhaps the collective subjective would reveal a purer reflection of truth than what we think "objectivity"can- which is really impossible. It is impossible to analyze and see things purely objectively.  For to be alive is to have the subject involved in the analysis of the object.  Therefore, since objectivity cannot be obtained, and subjectivity is all there is, the truth lies within the marriage of the subject and the object, and cannot escape it. Truth may be singularly objective in itself, but it cannot be perceived in its entirety and without corruption, since we subjectively perceive it.

Perhaps the closest we may get to objective truth is merely through its reflection in a collective measurement of the subjective in all of us.  My subjectivity, in comparison and contrast to your subjectivity, and so forth until we find the emergence of truth, that 5th note caused from the reverberation of the quartet, which marks the masterful synthesis of combined subjectivity- a note that is not at once any of us, yet in all of us.

If this truth exists, it is this kind of truth that should be pursued - a truth that is revealed in perfect cooperation. And each man holds in his own hands the purpose to play his part authentically for this sake- the sake of this emergence of truth.