Philosophy has been kicking around the notion of objectivity vs subjectivity for 2500 years. The debate rages on today and effects every aspect of our lives, even when it comes to court decisions. Can the law be objective? This author doesn’t think so. He raises the concern that party politics has been dividing Supreme Court decisions all along, and that the views of these parties are just subjective opinions in and of themselves. He breaks down the view points clearly and it is a worthwhile read. He does fail to tackle the question about whether, or not, there really is a subjective opinion either. For example an argument might go as follows: All of a person’s experience comes from the phenomenal world, including language, therefore our perception of a subjective experience is just an illusion built on the phenomenal world. Eastern philosophy contends that subjective and objective are mutually arising phenomena that depend on each other like the sides of a coin. There cannot be one without the other. The ontological question remains, what is the nature of reality?
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