The Absolute Subjective

Many of us take without question that our subjective experiences can not,
almost by definition, be “wrong”. Imagine, for example, that after hearing a
great piece of music, you exclaim: “Beautiful! How wonderful!” and then
moments later a big sign in the sky flashes: “WRONG!”

That, indeed, would be confounding to many of us, for we take our subjective
experience as the first principles of our universe–they are the TRUTHS in
which other truths are derived.

Well that’s completely wrong. and the truth is that our subjective experience
IS NOT RELATIVE. the fact is that the “truths” which we base other truths
on are wrong.

one way of going about this is to do what many objectivists have claimed
(especially in their anti-religious benders), and that is to establish
common, repeatable, experiences (i.e. the objective lands of science). but
except for the following, i won’t go there because i find that land of science
quite boring: science has established that you, yes, you, are a very imperfect
observer of your own experience (see psychology of memory and perception). so
when when you say, “i remember things being such and such…or it was
like this…”, science tells us otherwise.

but as i’ve said, i’m not going there. i’m going to heart of the
confusion, and claiming that even what you view as beautiful and right and
good is not relative–that subjective experiences have absolute measures, and
therefore, it is true that though the person may experience the symphony
as beautiful, that he can be wrong!

and the argument is simply this: just as science has shown us to be imperfect
observers of certain psycho-sensory experiences, we are also imperfect
observers of subjective experiences–i.e. beauty, goodness and morality.
(is it really that far of a stretch???) in other words, the assumption is
that the relativists make is that they are perfect observers of their own
subjective lives; and therefore, at least in the subjective realm of beauty,
morality, etc, that there are no measures of “better” or “worse”, right or
wrong. and that’s exactly what i’m going to attack.

[arg by example: morality- there is an absolute morality, and it is our sin
which corrupts this perception of that morality. that absolute, and all
absolutes come from God]

our subjective experience, i.e. our lives, are built on falsehoods.
specifically, we must understand that we are born into sin, and that this
sin blinds us to truths; it warps the truth; it obscures it; etc. sin
corrupts our notion of beauty for we take our own ideas of beauty as the
highest and not God’s. and sin corrupts our ideas of morality, for we
take what is convenient for us and not what God commands. and sin corrupts
all that is perfect, and we substitute our imperfect idols for the one True
God.

just as i was born with myopic eyes, so too was i born with myopic eyes of
perceiving TRUTH: that until i am corrected for the sin in my nature, i can not
see the TRUTH that God reveals: the Absolute Subjective Truth!

~ by lentaing on July 11, 2011.