Phenomenology, at least in its first practitioners and its early stages, was conceived as a conscious rejection
of subjectivism and an attempt to recover, without abandoning inwardness, the experienced reality of external things and of the self as well.
Following the dangerous reference to Antichrist, Luther said with a deep
subjectivism which frightened Spalatin: «Daily greater and greater help and support wells up in me by virtue of the authority of Holy Scripture.»
C. S. Lewis» recognition of a fact - value dichotomy within an argument against ethical
subjectivism in The Abolition of Man has no doubt contributed something to the frequency with which «values» is used by both Catholics and Protestants who want to defend «traditional values.»
The book critically dispatches theories that identify genuine freedom and autonomy
with subjectivism and proportionalism or «teleologism.»
Leclerc goes on to cite a Whiteheadian passage praising «the advent of
Cartesian subjectivism [for as a result] the substance - quality category has lost all claim to metaphysical primacy» (WM 120, citing PR 243).
In the light of its own records in the Gospels, it never could so individualize its thought as to be satisfied
by subjectivism alone.
However, as noted previously, the kind of
extreme subjectivism or relativity implied in Gestalt theory and practice is problematical for mainstream psychology.
Their ideas of objective scholarship have been overtaken by forms of engaged or committed scholarship which they see as a mixture of
radical subjectivism and political manipulation.
Moreover, if such acceptance requires retrofitting the Gospel, ignoring the Magisterium, and diving into the quicksand pits of
moral subjectivism, I don't think you'll find too many folks interested: in Africa, or elsewhere, for that matter.
A relational sexual ethics has appeared to many as a way of avoiding legalism on the one hand and normless
subjectivism on the other.
If Griffin's process view really is committed to this extreme
value subjectivism, many of us would consider that in itself to be a sufficient refutation of his position.
-LSB-...] at the MFA Mark Bradford: Silent Strength Stella, Smee and
Subjectivism Bad Art Poisoning Liang at the ICA Doubters The Intuition Deliminator -LSB-...]
Post-modernism substitutes relativism and
subjectivism for the scientific tradition of seeking (eventually) objective truth, and this is a grave menace.
The psychologizing of humanity which underpins the sexual revolution has rendered all talk of what it means to be human at best highly attenuated at worst
meaningless subjectivism.
The isolation of Scripture study from the believing community of faith (nuda scriptura) disregards the Holy Spirit's work in guiding the witness of the people of God to scriptural truths, and leaves the interpretation of that truth vulnerable to
unfettered subjectivism.
Sadly, then, the products of Lutheran, Presbyterian, and other commissions on sexuality are not only predictable, they are inevitable, symptomatic of the collapse of Protestantism
into subjectivism.
When modernity finally put the question, most Protestants proved unable to give a compelling answer, took refuge in moralism and
religious subjectivism, and waited.
We Protestants, in reacting against the objectivistic and collectivistic excesses of the late Middle Ages, have overreacted and have been left with fragmenting individualism and
suffocating subjectivism.
subjectivism vs objectivism: Unless you are infallible, you must agree that your perception of reality is but a model, and your model may not agree with the next guy's model.
The more extreme kind of revelation - theology, whether Barthian or other, seems to me all too likely to slip into the
very subjectivism it deplores.
The recrudescent nineteenth - century theology of
Christian subjectivism finds its literary equivalent in the current Christian chic of salvation through autobiography alone.
The more populist and charismatic democrat Andrew Jackson, coming a generation later, has been characterized by Richard Hofstadter by the phrase «self -
assertive subjectivism.»
It is one thing to acknowledge the perspectival and paradigm - dependent nature of all human knowing; it is another thing entirely to embrace multiple realities or
ontological subjectivism.
In spite of Jobs» «think different» mantra, his banner speech echoes the common inconsistencies and contradictions of
popular subjectivism....
Now perhaps it should be said immediately that this is not a call for exegesis that is mere problem - solving activity (as the inductive preaching of late liberal Protestantism tended to be) nor for client - centered preaching that is an exercise in self - analysis and
smothering subjectivism occasionally embroidered with Scripture verses.
This, of course, arouses the fear that truth will be debased to arbitrary taste, and an
overriding subjectivism will dismiss every item that is not viscerally authenticated.
We are asking about the adequacy of
Whiteheadian subjectivism, and more exactly, about the relationship between the concept and the status of a Whiteheadian [actual] entity.
As for the postliberal claim to eschew the
experiential subjectivism of liberal theology, Henry charged that in elevating narrative over factuality, narrative theology becomes unable to distinguish truth from error or fact from fiction.
The danger that particularity might lead to
unmitigated subjectivism is met by Newbigin's view that scientific knowledge as a particular worldview is legitimized by «universal intent,» namely, the enterprise of making public a claim and demonstrating its right to command credence.
But for all the Romantics» efforts to establish metaphysical grounds for this view, they could never move significantly beyond a
persistent subjectivism.