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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8612232.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %INTEGRATIVE PERSONAL & COMMUNAL REFLEXIVITY 861223 Personal and communal reflexive decisions and actions are essential to the integrity of both individual persons and their communities. Objective, scientific, analytic and other technocratic values and ideals which inhibit the fulfillment of personal and communal reflexive decisions and actions---lead to the disintegration of persons and their communities. Instrumental success of such instrumental ideals and values---does not justify them in the tragic light of personal and communal disintegration. Even ultimate ideals and values need to be assessed in terms of the consequences to which they lead. Any ideals and values which lead to personal and/or communal disintegration are not worthy of unqualified respect. Within some limited contexts bias may be transcended through respect for instrumental values such as: objectivity, analysis, measurement, enumeration, computation, statistics, repetition, duplication, consensus, conformity, etc. Such instrumental values are not worthy of ultimate respect when they play a central role in undermining personal and communal integrity through depersonalization. Reflexive behavior is not objective behavior, and we can not transcend bias in reflexive behavior by making reflexive behavior appear to be objective. Objectivity is a particular kind of bias which is appropriate to particular kinds of contexts; but objectivity is not the transcendence of bias. It is a most tragic kind of bias to ultimately respect objectivity---when it is contributing to the disintegration of personal and/or communal integrity as it misleads its incarnations in contexts where objectivity is not the appropriate kind of bias. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================