What is "objectifying"

Usage examples of "objectifying".

These theories, instead of helping us escape from the reductionistic and objectifying flatland of instrumentalism, are simply leading the way for an expansion of its reach, tossing the net wider by making it shallower.

And, indeed, this volume is vision-logic used in its objectifying mode, presenting a propositional map of the various quadrants and domains.

I criticize the merely objectifying mode of the fundamental Enlightenment paradigmthe philosophy of the disengaged self or subjectit is a criticism not of objectifying but of only objectifying: of the failure to see that the subject still exists in patterns of relational exchange with similarly depthed subjects, which finally anchors not only the we but the I.

Although, as I will argue in the text, the central negative motivation of the Ego camps was Phobos, or the fear of the lower, in this particular objectifying stance their own Thanatos was at work.

Enlightenment thinkers for having dissected man and hence distorted the true image of human life in objectifying human nature.

Postmodern experience no longer conforms to the print-centered, phallocentric paradigm of a distanced, objectifying, linear, and perspectival vision.

Despite everything, Freud still subscribes to the relentless project, of privatizing the inner self and objectifying the outside world, that has obsessed Western culture at least since Descartes.

One of the central ideals of this discipline is that of a disengaged observer, capable of objectifying the surrounding world and suppressing emotions, inclinations, fears, and compulsions in order to pursue research in an unbiased and rational manner.