Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Topics in Education

Titel: Topics in Education

Stichwort: Objectivity, Objektivität,

Kurzinhalt: the first spontaneous answer is that the objective is what is out there; the dividing line between objectivity and nonobjectivity or subjectivity lies in truth and falsity

Textausschnitt: 45/7 Let us now take another notion that develops, the notion of objectivity. Presumably, at a first approximation everyone assumes that we know just what is meant by objectivity. You tell people they are not being objective, and usually all you mean, of course, is that you do not agree with them. But if you ask them what they mean by objectivity, or if you ask yourself, What do I mean by objectivity? the first spontaneous answer is that the objective is what is out there; and being objective is seeing what is out there, seeing all of it, and not seeing anything that is not out there. That is what objectivity is. If one follows out logically that notion of objectivity, one agrees with the empiricists, the positivists, the pragmatists, the sensists, the modernists. (175; Fs) (notabene)
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46/7 One moves to a second notion of objectivity when one thinks of impartiality, detachment. We say a person is guided by his passions; his thinking is wishful; he is not thinking in the intellectual pattern of experience; he does not have ...
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47/7 There is a third component in the notion of objectivity, and that is when one reaches the absolute, the unconditioned. One is objective when what one says is true, and one is not objective when what one says is false. The dividing line between objectivity and nonobjectivity or subjectivity lies in truth and falsity.