This is http://www.essayz.com/a9104163.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.} ========================================================== %OBJECTIVE SCIENTIST PERSONAL NEED VULNERABLE TRUST 910416 Within the paradigm of the objective scientists there is n discussion of the personal needs of the scientists who act as objective observers of the objective world which is the focus of their study. The personal needs of scientists are really reflexive realities which lie outside the range of the consideration and interests of the objective paradigm. Personal needs cannot be deal with objectively in meaningful ways, so they are not dealt with at all within the scientists' paradigm; they are treated as if they do not exist, to avoid expanding the paradigm by exposing its collusions. To admit to personal needs, is to become vulnerable in way which acknowledge that the mask of objectivity is only a mask, obscuring a really real reality. To admit to personal needs which cannot be met though objective manipulations, is to admit to a vulnerability to other people who are essential to the meeting of those needs. To acknowledge personal needs which cannot be met through the manipulation of other people, is to admit that the objective paradigm is not comprehensive enough to explain all phenomena of which the scientists are aware; because the paradigm does not indicate how to meet the scientists' own most basic personal needs. Rather than expand their paradigm, scientists contract their awareness. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================