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     It does not require much thought, or even much
inspection, to see that the subject-object dichotomy is in
fact dialectical, which is as much as to say that neither
branch of the dyad is self-sufficient; while in conjunction
they seem either to supplement or to cancel and extinguish
one another.  Subjectivity and objectivity are thesis and
antithesis: their synthesis being everything or nothing.

     Their synthesis is everything in the sense that it
reflects or expresses my experience of myself in the world.

     Their antithesis is everything, and their synthesis is
nothing in so far as they cancel one another and yield
nothing but evidence of my inability to comprehend or even to
grasp that experience.

     The definition formulas on which I rely: I rely on
formulas to define objectivity and subjectivity.  Objectivity
is characterized by the synergy of human agents or actors in
a social context.  Subjectivity comprises those aspects or
facets of my experience which are incongruous or incompatible
with society; which in other words, are uniquely my own.
Such formulas (obviously) have considerable heuristic and
instrumental value, but they cannot conceal (obviate) the
circumstance that I, even in utmost individuality, am a
social being, totally dependent on society, on the aggregate
of human beings within my purview, and that that society also
inevitably and unavoidably is informed only by individual
perception and finds expression only in individual action.
Even the most rigidly regimented soldier sees the light of
the sun only with his own eyes, stands upon the ground with
his own two feet, and hoists his flag, or whatever else he
does, with his own two hands.

     The subjectivity-objectivity dichotomy is no solution,
gives no answer.  The most it can do is to present a clearer
statement of the issues; the worst, to obfuscate them.

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Copyright 2006, Ernst Jochen Meyer
