Can the subject-object polarity ever be resolved? If so, how?

I think it is the source of all human misery. A person should never be reduced into an object by a subject or as a subject reduce another person into an object! I think faith is the transcendence of the object and the subject.





Is sex about the resolution of this subject-object polarity or division?Can the subject-object polarity ever be resolved? If so, how?
This is a fallacy that a many philosophers have gone to great lengths to perpetuate. Objectivity encompasses the material and the moral; objective reality exists and does not change to suit our opinions. To the extent that we discover and correctly identify the nature of an entity, we learn how to act in accordance with these properties and manipulate them to suit our purposes.





Subjectivity is limited to the realm of preferences. You might prefer scotch to bourbon etc, but there is no right and wrong here.





Faith means to believe something in spite of or in contradiction to the facts of reality; the opposite of reason. The irrational transcends anything it feels like.





';Sex is a physical capacity, but its exercise is determined by man's mind - by his choice of values, held consciously or subconsciously. To a rational man, sex is an expression of self-esteem - a celebration of himself and of existence. To the man that lacks self-esteem, sex is an attempt to fake it, to acquire its momentary illusion.





Romantic love, in the full sense of the term, is an emotion possible only to the man or woman of unbreached self-esteem: it is his response to his own highest values in the person of another - an integrated response of mind and body, of love and sexual desire. Such a man or woman is incapable of experiencing a sexual desire divorced from spiritual values.';Can the subject-object polarity ever be resolved? If so, how?
What is bad? All things[science aside] have an opposite reaction, so what is bad is some way or another good. There isn't always the same outcome though, that good reaction could always be bad to someone else, and so forth. It is all in how we choose to deal with these problems. We must decide to stay who we are regardless of what happens.
All is one. We just need to remember that this is the truth.





love and blessings Don
This question needs some clarifying.





- What exactly do you mean by subject-object polarity? It seems you're thinking of objectifying other people, but I don't want to presume too much.





- *Why* do you perceive such a polarity as bad? In some cases it's necessary. Surgeons have to think of the body in a way not unlike mechanics think of cars. Putting the question into some context might help make the meaning clearer.





-Must this polarity be exclusive? A surgeon regards the patient in this ';mechanical'; way, but never once pretends that this is anything other than a flesh-and-blood person before them.





Your statement about faith needs unpacking. How does it transcend object and subject? I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.





Your question about sex I find more interesting, perhaps because it seems closer to my initial, ';off-the-cuff'; understanding of the main issue. Without going into it, I'd give it a qualified yes. (Email me if you really are interested.)
that doesn't even make any sense! imagine if all of us were subjects and not objects. how could that even be possible? everyone would be doing something but they'd be in their own little universe and nothing they did would even be perceived by others.





and if we were all objects, which we are, but no one was a subject, then life just wouldn't be! because everything we do is a reaction to something else. life is a reaction to something else. so if there hadn't been that initial push, nothing would have happened.





life needs that ';subject-object polarity'; in order to be.





oh, and sex in general is not either a resolution or a division. it varies from couple to couple.
A subject is the journey and the object is the destination, so we are taking many steps that lead us to our eventual afterglow.
Due to the nature of the subject-object polarity, you cannot ';resolve it'; because your mind is dependent upon subject-object polarity in the first place - and you would need to use your mind to answer that question intellectually.





Your last question itself is a subject-object type question. Sex is a physical act. That is it. Nothing more, nothing less. Subject-object polarity will make you think there is ';more'; to it (i.e. sex IS the resolution....) or ';less'; to it (i.e. sex IS NOT the resolution). Sex being the object and whether you think it is or is not the resolution being the subject.
By flushing the philosophy book down the toilet one page at a time then getting out and doing some good for your fellow human being.
yes. when one is not incarnate or in a state of nirvana.