Ethics and Profit

Abstract

The undeniable facts of life include birth and death, not as phenomena we observe neutrally as outsiders, but as facts to which we are most personally subjected. Does this mean, therefore, that they are only subjective? Certainly not in the sense of being uncertain, but certainly in the sense that we undergo them. Does this mean that a certainty exists of going deeper than objectivity? It is only within the scene that opens with birth and closes with death that we can speak of subjectivity or objectivity. There is a vantage point from which the subject can survey both objectivity and subjectivity. It is inescapably the point of view of a subject. There is nothing for the human being to see if he himself does not exist. Objectivity in the traditional scientific sense of the word in some way obviously presupposes this awareness. However, just as obviously it causes doubts in the areas of those who want to fight for undeniable objective truth and values-for is there any escape for the subject from being subjective?