Objectivity

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Objectivity means to become and to be viewed as an object. It is to lose all Intrinsic value and only be seen through the Instrumental value. It is the focus on the "concrete natural facts". For example, to focus on a person's indisputable, often quantitative aspects such as their age, height, sex, ethnicity, IQ, etc, as opposed to looking at the qualitative, relative aspects of his life such as dreams, values, etc... Subjectivity. Often it is connected with the process of Commodification, that we are seen as products or tools to be used, rather than as people. Similarly, when we dedicate ourselves completely for a cause, "forgetting ourselves", or becoming a member of a herd, we become an object to be used for a "greater process", at the potential cost of self destruction.

Often, to be an object, or to be viewed as one, is the same process of dehumanization, to have lower Moral worth or responsibility, down to the level of an animal or an inanimate object. This can also be self inflicted. Often people with Fixed Mindset treat themselves as an object, not necessarily in terms of low Self Worth, but by thinking that they can't change, they treat themselves as something fixed, immutable. It is to turn ourselves into one-dimensional being, to see ourselves as just one thing, permanent and unchanging.

Therefore, an object, is also something that is fixed, unchanging, again like a rock that will forever be the same.

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🔼Topic:: Existentialism (MOC) ◀Origin:: Ethics of ambiguity (book) 🔗Link::