This-essay is a7808122.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %RELATIONAL DECISIONS 780812 The problems we deal with are occasioned by our relational decisions. We decide what kinds of relationships will dominate our lives. We decide to live in an "objective world" and/or a "personal world". We decide to live in a world of "elements" and/or a world of "relationships"; by deciding to focus upon "elements" or upon "relationships." The kind of world we perceive and cope with depends upon what realities we choose to regard as basic: "relationships", "elements", "persons", "objects", etc. We differ from each other according to the differences in these basic decisions which we make. If we decide to regard "objects" as more fundamental than "persons", we live in an "objective" world in which relationships are patterned after those of the physicist's laws of physics---relating elementary particles which join together to make nuclei, atoms, molecules, cells, organs, organisms, plants, animals, communities, ecosystems, planets, solar systems, star clusters, galaxies, and galactic clusters. If we decide to regard "personal relationships" as more fundamental than "objects", we live in a "personal" world in which our relationships are pattered after intimate human relationships in which mutual awareness and mutual understanding involve non-formal communication and non-formal relationships/institutions. None of our relational decisions are ultimately self- validating. The act of approaching life in one mode--- does not justify any claim that other ways of approaching life are inferior---no matter how successful the mode of approach is in terms of its own standards of judgment. The most helpful thing we can do is to affirm people who make helpful relational decisions--- accepting diversity and seeking to promote communication back-and-forth between people who have made differing relational-decisions. Promoting dialogue between people who have made contrasting/complimentary relational decisions can be very difficult---especially if there are elements of exclusivity in their decisions. Their decisions may block dialogue---cutting them off from people who have made fundamentally different relational decisions. The differences in decisions must be recognized and dealt with in a loving way---if dialogue is to be promoted and continue. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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