This is http://www.essayz.com/a9711232.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.} ========================================================== %LEVELS REFLEXIVITY PERSONAL OBJECTIVE RELATIONSHIP+971123 %DENIAL OPENNESS HONESTY AUTHENTICITY PRETENSE EVIL+971123 %SIN RIGHTEOUSNESS SALVATION ARROGANCE SCIENCE FAIL 971123 There are various LEVELS of reflexivity in human relationships: 1. Some people live as if they are impersonal objects engaged in objective relationships in conformity to objective prescriptions and proscriptions --- without reflecting upon the sense, meaning, coherence, emotions, etc., which are, or are not, present. Such people live superficially with little insight, intentionality, or passion. 2. Some people are dominated by preoccupations with what each other, and "they"; think, feel and do. Such people often live intense lives with much passion and activity --- but with little true insight or understanding. 3. Some people earn their living by thinking, feeling, reflecting, and talking about what they and others "think", feel and do. Such people live lives characterized by insights and actions which may at the same time be simple, profound and pretentious. It is not a simple matter to classify all different kinds of people as to reflexivity --- and even more complicated to deal with people helpfully in terms of any system of classification. Yet it may be helpful to recognize, describe and talk about the variety of ways in which different people differ in regards to how they are, or are not, reflexive about themselves and others --- regarding what each other will, should, or must "think", feel and do. Such convoluted considerations take place overtly, tacitly, openly, explicitly, implicitly, etc. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in Download it! (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================