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                                %REFLEXIVE IDEALS-2 860516

     Values,   ideals,  priorities,  importance;  rewards,
punishments,      prizes,      acceptance,      rejection,
excommunication:     these  all  entail   self-referential
considerations  in  which members of a  community  reflect
upon themselves and how they regard each other. Reflection
is  upon  self  and  others,  regarding self  and  others;
reflexive,  not  objective,  in  violation  of scientists'
objective values,  ideals  and  priorities. Scientists who
are exclusively dedicated to objective ideals,  values and
priorities  can  not  with integrity articulate  their own
values, ideals, and priorities. They can not be engaged in
open and  honest  dialogue  to analyze their  own  values,
ideals  and priorities.   They can not be scientific about
being scientists.

     It is nearly impossible to escape from a prison which
self  helped  to create,  helped to lock self  into,   and
helped  to  throw  the  keys of escape away  from.    Self
referential  ideals  which  are  highly   successful   and
prohibit  their own appraisal,  form  a prison from  which
higher education  will not be  liberated  so long as   the
professors of higher education are the high priests of the
imprisoning  ideals.   The prison is especially  secure if
the professors of liberal education are taught by the high
priests  of the imprisoning  ideals which block their  own
appraisal.   People  who are being  true  to their highest
ideals  often undermine liberal education in  the name  of
the ideal of maintaining exclusive objectivity to minimize
reflexive bias.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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