But the fact that
such objectivism was detectable (and detected by Whitehead) in Descartes throws a clearer light on the ontological principle's legacy.
Not exact matches
Not the posture of value - detachment and apolitical
objectivism but the articulation of one's social location, interpretive strategies and theoretical frameworks are appropriate in
such a rhetorical paradigm of theological studies.
Such a position may be less exciting than either the early empiricists» «
objectivism» or the «subjectivism» which many readers found in Kuhn's first edition.
The movement begins with Kierkegaard, who tries to do two things: to give a phenomenological description of anxiety as the occasion (not the cause) of sin, and to give a phenomenological account of the forms which result from man's fall
such as loss of selfhood, impersonal
objectivism, and despair.
The outlines of what Rorty calls foundationalism and what Palmer calls
objectivism were developed during the seventeenth century by thinkers
such as Descartes, Hobbes, and Locke.
Timothy Chase wrote: ``... my primary intent in bringing up
Objectivism is first of all to give people some idea of what they are dealing with when they face people who are ideologically opposed to various scientific discoveries and to give those who are so opposed to
such discoveries some personal insight.»
And really, «philosophical» discussion
such as this does not begin to convey the depth and breadth of
Objectivism.
A Question of Meaning http://axismundi.hostzi.com/0/024.php * Anyway, my primary intent in bringing up
Objectivism is first of all to give people some idea of what they are dealing with when they face people who are ideologically opposed to various scientific discoveries and to give those who are so opposed to
such discoveries some personal insight.
I don't know if the moderators will permit my previous «philosophical» comment which was verbosely critical of
Objectivism, but in defense of
Objectivism in the context of AGW denialism, it is my observation that the overwhelming majority of denialists who claim or appear to be «ideologically opposed to various scientific discoveries» are not operating on the basis of any
such intellectual framework as
Objectivism.