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     The Protestant reformation as the discovery of
subjectivity.  Wonder what I would have become, had I been
brought up Catholic.

     The history of thought is not the path to thought.  One
can not grasp anothers thought by recapitulating "what" was
thought, but only by thinking.  I cannot recover my thought
of yesterday by recollecting "what" it was that I thought,
but by repeating the mental exercise which that thought
entailed.  I must think again, I must rethink, - and
therefore the thought cannot be recovered.

     I can forever expand my thinking dialectically.
Dialectic is generic. Thought can be resolved unendingly into
dyads: body and soul, matter and spirit, light and dark, yes
and no, up and down.  I must be mindful of this when I
reflect on inwardness-outwardness, subject-object. The clue
is that thinking does not resolve issues but serves to
exercise the mind. (Indeed) the process of thinking, the
study of philosophy may be considered the study of dialectic.
The resolution of opposites.

     Language is the intersection of subjectivity and
objectivity.  Objectivity as social intellect: as the
expression and representation of a common experience.
Objectivity as static. Subjectivity as dynamic.

     Kierkegaard as I understand him is the source of the
subjectivity/objectivity distinction.  God is the
objectivation of subjectivity: the projection of subjectivity
into the cosmos.  Omniscience, omnipotence: All of the divine
attributes are the experiences of self raised to the nth
potential.

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Copyright 2006, Ernst Jochen Meyer
