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    Morality and its Subjectivity: To Love is to be Moral It seems to pose a paradox to both love and to be moral. Love makes one vulnerable to the existence of another, and in doing so, appears to motivate him to value his lover’s life over that of another. However, in terms of attention, to love is to look at a person with particularity. Since we cannot escape Strawson’s participant stance when in love, we must examine morality from a participant stance as well. In order to define morality, one cannot

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    torturous because it leaves open the definition or understanding of a personal belief. Inasmuch, no one would know what to believe because of the confusion of so many definitions. I believe that this matter may be classified as subjectivity and objectivity. Subjectivity is based upon an opinion, however, objectivity is based upon the essence of right and wrong. Therefore, the best way to define is the basis of what is right. The determination of what is right is upon plurals of belief. Meaning,

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    slavery. They usually expressed a specific kind of storytelling as well as a specific purpose of writing that emphasizes subjectivity and interiority. Subjectivity is how a single persons’ judgment is formed by their own opinions and feelings rather than by other people’s influences. Interiority refers to your inner characteristic. The classic slave narratives used both subjectivity and interiority because referring to the past is usually very subjective as it also brings out your inner self. Once Frederick

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    social identity and therefore subjectivity. Theorists such as, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and Judith Butler are a minor fraction of academics that believe that subjectivity is not inherent and naturally occurring but dynamic and adaptable according to society and our ever-changing culture. It is through the concepts of performativity and habitus that the ideas surrounding subjectivity being dynamic and fluid are presented. Subjectivity “We think about subjectivities as actors’ thoughts, sentiments

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    Comprehending that every person has their own mind is what inter-subjectivity is all about. It is the ability to understand that each of us have our own set of thoughts and emotions. In addition, it is understanding that our thoughts and emotions can be the same or very different depending on the situations. After reading a few more articles, I learned that affect attunement is when two people share emotions. On the other hand, social-referencing is when a child looks at a trusted adult to decide

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    Explanation, Understanding, and Subjectivity ABSTRACT: Many theorists of explanation from Hempel onward have worked with the explicit or implicit assumption that considerations of the subjective sense of understanding should be kept out of the formulation of a proper theory of explanation. They claim that genuine understanding of an event comes only from being in an appropriate cognitive relation to the true explanation of that event. I argue that considerations of the subjective sense of understanding

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    Gender subjectivity is another important aspect of the debate around gender because it focuses on a move away from the idea of innate sexual identity characteristics that divide human beings into male and female (Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, 2014). This type of view challenges the essentialism of sexual difference into something more then a binary between male vs. female, heterosexual vs. homosexual, etc., as it recognizes that these dichotomies are problematic because the term of gender

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    personal research I intend to use a Qualitative method of analysis – a method that forms with the help of opinions and more importantly, one that derives meaning. In the following essay I shall be discussing theoretical concerns of reflexivity and subjectivity in qualitative research from a postmodernist approach. “Can reflexivity be encouraged and enhanced by building it into our research methods and processes, and by creating appropriate times, spaces, and contexts to be reflexive? At the same time

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    21st century and has been shifted from its objective nature to subjective one. It is an extreme act of violence and terrors that threat the community and makes the lives of people vulnerable (Combs 2015). This essay will through light over the subjectivity of terrorism and how it has been made controversial issue while facilitating the biased global politics. The term terrorism is not new to the world as to date back many incidences are tied to our history that highlight the terror and rage. However

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    are factual, measurable, or observable. On the other hand, subjectivity refers to being based on or influenced by personal feelings, opinions, or tastes. Many non-fiction texts present topics in a firmly objective way, to show the purpose is to inform the reader with facts, rather than give them their opinion. The Holocaust, Part Two: The “Final Solution” By History.com, is mainly objective, but contains some

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