It closes down the represented world and represented persons. Monologue pretends to be the ultimate word. Monologue manages without the other, and therefore to some degree materializes all reality. Monologue is finalized and deaf to other's response, does not expect it and does not acknowledge in it any decisive force. No response is expected from it that could change anything in the world of my consciousness. With a monologic approach (in its extreme pure form) another person remains wholly and merely an object of consciousness, and not another consciousness. Monologism, at its extreme, denies the existence outside itself of another consciousness with equal rights and equal responsibilities, another I with equal rights ( thou). Voilà-you have truth! (Though if you disagree, please let me know.) People seeking truth come together in their searches and make conclusions by having a good healthy dialogue. Truth is created through exchanges between and among people who share words, argue, give opinions, and massage their ideas. How can anyone person-or "voice," as I call it-be more right or truthful than another? Truth doesn't pop out of one person like Athena coming out of Zeus's head all full grown and armed to the teeth. Īs you can see, I am not one to believe in absolutes. Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction.
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