For most feminist standpoint theorists, including Hartsock, a standpoint is understood as an "achieved stance" and is not just a synonym for a "perspective".
Rather than rejecting or negating the previous states, this final state fulfills and encompasses their standpoints from what is claimed to be the most comprehensive standpoint, in view of — or rather in non-duality with — the Dharma.
From most writers' standpoint it looks like a decent deal.
But as stated above, the sequential ordering of the hierarchy is not necessary when the whole is viewed from this most comprehensive standpoint.
When one takes up this most external standpoint and views one's finite and even downright puny impact on the world, little of one's life appears to matter.
Very few accept the authority of the (most) external standpoint (Ellin 1995, 316 17; Blackburn 2001, 79 80; Schmidtz 2001) or the implications that Nagel believes it has for the meaning of our lives (Quinn 2000, 65 66; Singer 1993, 333 34; Wolf 1997b, 19 21).
As a 2012 presidential candidate, Romney has been doubling down in his most recent standpoint: In February, he sparred with President Barack Obama's rule requiring some religiously affiliated employers to include contraception in employees' health care coverage, referring to birth control as "abortive pills".
This category, reflecting the most common standpoint towards future CD mass screening among both adolescents and parents, was strongly related to having internalized the risk of possible negative outcomes of untreated CD.
"This proposed route seems to be the best from most agencies' standpoints," he said.
However, most versions of standpoint theory represent the epistemically privileged standpoint as an achieved, not a given, perspective, requiring critical reflection on the power structures of society and the relations of one's group to it.
