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Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
Overview
basic distinction in philosophy
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(1) That the popular notion that these experiences are intuitively given as purely inner facts is hasty and erroneous; and (2) That their ambiguity illustrates beautifully my central thesis that subjectivity and objectivity are affairs not of what an experience is aboriginally made of, but of its classification. Classifications depend on our temporary purposes. For certain purposes it is convenient to take things in…
William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism
States what Subjectivity and objectivity is; opens on Subjectivity and objectivity.
Evaluated as fanciful in _validity_ it becomes a mere fancy in its existence.[23] It is not eliminated, but receives a new reference or meaning. Thus the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is not one between meaning as such and datum as such. It is a specification that emerges, correspondently, in _both_ datum and ideatum.
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
States what Subjectivity and objectivity is; names Subjectivity and objectivity.
Just as religion and religious worship consist in overcoming the antithesis of subjectivity and objectivity, so science too and philosophy have no other task than to overcome this antithesis by the medium of thought. The aim of knowledge is to divest the objective world that stands opposed to us of its strangeness, and, as the phrase is, to find ourselves at home in it: which means no more than to trace the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
Names Subjectivity and objectivity several times; the author is tied to Subjectivity and objectivity in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Gilles Deleuze
- Harry Frankfurt
- Immanuel Kant
- Mircea Eliade
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- Eric Voegelin
- Ernest Renan
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Sam Harris
- Protagoras
- Thomas Kuhn
- Robert Nozick
- Crispin Wright
- Karl Jaspers
- Martha Nussbaum
- Martin Heidegger
- Richard McKeon
- Étienne Balibar
- György Lukács
- Antonio Gramsci
- Gabriel Marcel
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Emotion
- History
- Subjective character of experience
- Classical Greece
- George Berkeley
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Intension
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
- Opposite
- Idealism
- Journalism
- Republic (Plato)
- John Locke
- Truth value
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Impartiality
- Thrasymachus
- Eurocentrism
- Mathematics
- Metaphysics
Opposing perspectives
- Individualism
- Mind
- Truth
- Impartiality
- Postcolonialism
- Evidence
- Narrative
- Convention (norm)
- Ethical egoism
- Randomized controlled trial
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.
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