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%SELF-REFERENTIAL IDEALS AND VALUES 851016
Ideals and values which are affirmed via statements
and behaviors are essentially self-referential in nature;
they are about what foci of attention and energy are
worthy of our limited time, consideration and action. Any
affirmation of ideals and values is inherently self-
referential in nature. Intellectual statements about
ideals and values are not affirmations of them. To engage
in making extended intellectual statements about certain
ideals and values is to make an affirmation of the value
of spending one's limited time and energy engaging in
dispassionate intellectual consideration of other's ideals
and values. Such behavior does not avoid making any
affirmation of ideals and values; it is the affirmation of
the ideals and values which affirm the worth of such
behavior. Such behavior is not an intellectual analysis
of the ideals and values which justify such behavior,
which affirm the worth of the behavior.
By their statements and behavior scientists affirm
the value of objectivity and analysis; however, they do
not analyze and evaluate the ideals and values which
justify their dedication to objectivity and analysis. It
is logically impossible to objectively analyze the reasons
for one's own commitment to the ideals of objectivity and
analysis. To those who have made such a commitment with
great passion it is taboo to non-objectively participate
in the consideration of the consequences of one's own
commitment to objectivity and analysis. It is taboo to
analyze the objective evidence of the consequences of that
commitment because such an analysis can not be conducted
in an objective way and so to carry it out one must
transcend the ideal of objectivity. If objectivity is the
ultimate ideal it can not be transcended because there is
no basis for transcending your ultimate ideal. If no
ideal is affirmed as more important that objectivity then
objectivity may naturally be regarded as the ultimate
ideal and serve as the focus of a collusive idolatry.
Scientists neglect philosophy because they are
required to by their commitment.
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