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"What often passes for objectivity is a sort of collective European subjectivity."
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Objectivity"To some extent objectivity is a relative term because what is objectively perceived is by definition to some extent subjectively conceived of."
"What often passes for objectivity is a sort of collective European subjectivity."
"The function [of objective thinking] is to reduce all phenomena which bear witness to the union of subject and world, putting in their place the clear idea of the object as in itself and of the subject as pure consciousness. It therefore severs the links which unite the thing and the embodied subject."
"The principle of objectivity can, I think, be applied to every human experience, but is often quite out of place. For instance: what is a fugue by Bach? Is it the invariant cross-section, or the common content of all printed or written copies, gramophone records, sound waves at performances, etc., of this piece of music?"