Subjectivity

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Subjectivity is in a sense to be a pure ideal, something moldable, a potential, a force, imbued with meaning, a living value.

Explanation

To be a subject or to be seen as such, is to be a conscious human being, with moral responsibility for their actions, and with Moral worth. We are not objects to be used by others, nor are we fixed, shallow and easily quantified.

People with Capabilities are malleable through effort and learning are at least in some part a subject, because they recognize their capability to transcend, to grow and adapt. They are proactive in their lives, operating from a place of Agency is the ability to connect desires and actions.

Why it matters

To live an ideal has to empower us, and not just the ideal itself. It is to find a Synergy between the life we want, and who we are, to be happy, to prosper and to nurture ourselves while pursuing who we wish to be.

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Sometimes it happens that we lose ourselves to that ideal. For example, workaholics or political activists that see no difference between their lives and the goal they are working for. While in these cases it seems that we are embodying an ideal, we are actually becoming a slave to an external ideal, becoming an object that they control.

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