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%PERSONAL NEEDS OBJECT REALITY 800101
Each of us lives by criteria of what is ultimately
real. We choose those criteria to meet our particular
personal needs. A few examples will illustrate the point:
The research scientist who is awkward in and fears
intimate personal relationships needs to avoid the
embarrassment they occasion. Such relationships can not
be ultimately real to the research scientist. The
scientist needs to "discover," that ultimate reality is as
different from that which he fears as is possible.
Real persons are whole beings whose natures are
interdependent and full of emotions, desires, hopes,
fears, etc. Yet the scientist chooses criteria which
define ultimate reality to be parts of things whose
natures are independent of each other and are devoid of
personal characteristics and relationships. Then the
scientist dedicates his life to the quest for the ultimate
reality which fulfills his personal need.
The Scientists "discovers" the objective universe in
its expanse of ultimately large and ultimately small,
ultimately long and ultimately short durations---of
fragments of matter, process, relationship, and essence.
Other persons find their fulfillment in intimate
personal relationships from the moment of their birth.
They experience no satisfying personal meaning in I-It
relationships. Early on they experience embarrassment in
trying to solve practical problems. Objects and analytic
relationships can not be ultimately real to such
personable members of social groups. They need to
"discover" that ultimate reality is as different from the
fragmented and analyzed world of the scientist as is
possible. Objects and objective/analytic insights tend to
impinge on persons in ways which deprive persons of their
integrity and fulfillment. These personal members of
society thus choose definitions of the nature of ultimate
reality in a way which is different from that of the
research scientist. These persons live their lives in a
quest for meaningful intimate personal relationships which
fulfill their personal needs. They "discover" such
relationships by creating them through entry into them as
participants, and live in the eternal now of personal
meaning.
Similar examples might be sketched for people who
focus their lives upon competition, possessions, ego,
power, spirits, etc. We each seek to fulfill our own
needs by how we define what is ultimately real, and our
consequent search for that which is ultimately real to us.
Reality to us depends upon what is important to us, what
our priorities are upon our values, ideals, hopes and
expectations.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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