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%OBJECTIVE REFLEXIVE DISEASE SELF KNOWLEDGE MEDICAL 961101

     Our knowledge of the conditions of our own bodies and
 within  our own bodies is usually reflexive  knowledge---
not objective knowledge.  This fact is troubling to people
who are  compulsively  preoccupied with trying  always  to
be  objective---for  they cannot deal openly and  honestly
with their  reflexive knowledge of the conditions of their
own bodies and within their own bodies.

     If  we are compulsively concerned with trying  always
to be objective we will find it difficult to  deal  openly
and honestly with reports by those about whom we care most
about their reflexive knowledge of the conditions of their
own   bodies  and  within  their  own  bodies---for   such
reflexive  knowledge falls outside the range of  permitted
objective  considerations.    This  poses  a  dilemma  for
compulsively  objective  medical  doctors and  any  others
seeking to people for whom they care to take good care  of
themselves.    Taking good care of oneself is a  reflexive
process;   not an objective process.    Helping others  to
take  good  care  of  themselves  is  thus  a    reflexive
processes---because we cannot do so well if we do not care
about  them  in  meaningful  ways  and  understand  in  an
sympathetic way their communications about their reflexive
knowledge  about  their  own bodies.    Thus  the  dilemma
extends to all members of an extended family,  to teachers
and  co-workers and others whose health depends upon  each
other  in  reflexive ways.    The health all members of  a
community  depend  reflexively  upon each  other  members'
health.   Communal health cannot be dealt with effectively
in exclusively objective ways.

     The above clearly indicates that communal health  and
integrity  are reflexive realities and so they  cannot  be
promoted and enjoyed in exclusively objective ways.     We
cannot  reliably know about communal health and  integrity
in  exclusively  objective  ways  and so  we  cannot  deal
effectively  with issues of communal health and  integrity
in exclusively objective ways.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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