No doubt there are features of
human subjectivity not shared by any other creature, but many of these are not shared with all other human beings either.
Not exact matches
It considered the natural world to be an object, without
subjectivity or rights, and certainly
not as participating with
humans in a single earth community.
To modernists «God» is an idea in people's heads,
not a reality outside of
human subjectivity.
Second, unlike Hume's «perceptions,» and unlike intellectual insight, responsibility is experienced
not as transient and contingent but as a constant of
human subjectivity.
This eclipse is
not taking place in
human subjectivity «but in Being itself.»
This situation is witnessed to by the fact that the only metaphysical issue where there is a virtual consensus among mainstream twentieth century Catholic thinkers, apart from the reality of
human subjectivity mentioned above, is the claim that the discoveries of modern science should
not have a significant influence upon metaphysics.
Perceiving Thomas in this way, Metz finds that «the worldliness of the world is
not therefore originally conceived in a cosmocentric way as an already given, self - contained, and actual existent, which man encounters» 4 «
Human existence — that is: ecstatic
subjectivity; both — man and world — are synthesized a priori in the one being of man.»
Similarly God is
not an object existing above
human beings but is the transcendental
subjectivity of
human subjectivity.»
Whitehead agrees with Metz that apart from
subjectivity there can be nothing at all, but he does
not agree that apart from
human subjectivity there can be nothing at all.
There is
not time here for any elaborate analysis, but I think it can be shown that a man's
subjectivity is the most distinctive characteristic of the
human level of existence.
The first possibility would treat God the Father or the Godhead as some sort of vacuous actuality devoid of
subjectivity; at any rate it would, like the second possibility, ascribe all divine subjective attributes to the
subjectivity of Jesus (who can only have one unified
subjectivity,
not one divine and one
human), which is both implausible and heretical.
From this viewpoint it makes good sense that Whitehead describes the actual entity in categories of
subjectivity and thus makes methodic use of the analogy of
human subjectivity.34 For actual entities are
not to be treated simply from the outside, as objects to which other objects stand as past, simultaneous, or future.
There are certainly some features of
human subjectivity that can
not plausibly be attributed to subatomic events.
As
human beings we are
not, therefore, trapped behind the glass wall of our own
subjectivity, because our brains are part of this same fabric of meaningful and interconnected reality that is the universe we live in.
While it is easiest to grasp the prius of creativity - esse in the
human case, a process metaphysics sees at least a faint glimmer of
subjectivity (which for process thinkers does
not imply consciousness!)
Just as the discovery that sodium chloride has properties
not exhibited by sodium and chlorine in isolation tells us something about the nature of sodium and chlorine which we could
not otherwise know, so too the existence of
subjectivity in combinations of atoms that make
human brains tells us something about the nature of those atoms that make those brains.
In the first place, we must notice that Whitehead does
not equate
subjectivity with conscious individuality or even ascribe it only to «
human beings.»
Accordingly, the church can
not be just an intersubjective communion of
human subjectivities.
Of course, in the end, in anything involving
human judgment, there's a little
subjectivity, but College Insider's poll and definition of who is and isn't included carries a bit more weight than blog commenters.
The Aube's cure Parle Ment is an alternative parliament for
subjectivities that are neither
humans nor objects, and as such,
not recognized within the established political discourse.
Those duties didn't prevent him, though, from participating in a dozen group and solo shows as well; curators recognise that, for the past decade, Trecartin has been — and remains — the artist who most naturally understands the Internet's restyling of
human subjectivity and the changing meaning of community.
Directly intervening in the moments before such events coalesce into widely accepted narratives, they anticipate and shape understanding of a variety of
human (and non-
human)
subjectivities by documenting and articulating instances of what is
not yet widely known or recognized.