Defining objectivity
By: by Mark Louis Bourgeois
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Objectivity
First sentence: "So often objectivity is only a phrase."   With this Nietzsche denounces the academic historian who prides himself on dispassionate objectivity which he believes clears his vision, but which Nietzsche contends, despite its pretenses, does not help him see more clearly, but rather sets him at a myopic distance.
Description: The word 'objectivity' has become a confusing and multivalent term in current philosophy.  This thesis will briefly examine and diagnose the situation.  It will then attempt a resolution by first surveying four examples of its use and definition in its most pertinent form.  A synthetic and unifying definition will then be derived which emphasizes universality of access via communal and super-communal standards of knowledge.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Philosophy, 1999

Includes bibliographical references
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