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%PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL CONTEXTS 790821
Personally meaningful contexts may be provided
without the benefit of any analysis. Analysis is not a
prerequisite to love. Affection's meanings do not depend
upon analysis. The healthy support of a humane context
may exist without the benefit of any logical, rational,
scientific, intellectual, philosophical, theological,
quantitative, or any other kind of analysis. Analysis is
nether necessary nor sufficient for the provision of
humane contexts within which people can grow in healthy
ways, even though on occasion it may be helpful. While
analysis and objectivity are not in all respects alike,
objectivity is neither the necessary nor the sufficient
condition for the provision of a humane context within
which real people can grow in healthy ways. People who
are neither analytic nor objective in their dominant
dispositions may well provide more healthy contexts for
human growth than people who are both analytic and
objective in their dominant dispositions. No amount of
analysis of objectivity will change such contexts, unless
the contexts yield to analysis and objectification.
The I-Thou context does not yield to analysis and
objectification and is not changed by analysis or
objectification. Words can barely point to the I-Thou
context. Instruments can not quantify and thereby
describe the I-Thou context. The I-Thou context is not
understood by taking it apart while standing apart from
it; i.e., by analysis which is objective. The meaning of
the I-Thou context is known and understood mutually
through participation which does not meet the requirements
of objectivity while transcending them. The I-Thou
context is not entered through objectivity and analysis.
It is not achieved, it is received. We do not create the
relationships as much as they create us. There are no
meaningful I-Thou races, competitions, achievements,
prizes, etc. Even the rewards of I-Thou relationships are
of a different kind than those which characterize races,
competitions, achievements, and prizes. Love does not
compete, for competition separates people.
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