This treats utiltarianism as less cognitively advanced (more primitive) than rationalist views like Rawls's and Kant's, and utilitarians (like Hare) have naturally called into question the objectivity and intellectual fairness of Kohlberg's account.
The business about adopting an outsider's intellectual objectivity took some doing.
He flips to a page he has memorized and reads: "If existing management want to keep their jobs when the basics of the business are undergoing profound change, they must adopt an outsider's intellectual objectivity".
But what he could not have fully understood were two forces that had gained strength in the nineteen-seventies, both of which were at odds with his neo-Deweyism: a postmodern critique of objectivity, fashionable among intellectuals, artists, and writers; and a conservative movement determined to expose the liberal bent of the academy and of the press.
However, science and discovery cannot be only performed in a vacuum of moral objectivity and self-serving intellectual curiosity.
Whether magic or religion, these groups reject intellectual coherence and objectivity in favour of personal experience and dismiss science as well as traditional religion.
His sprawling imagination and cumbersome style kept him from performing well in the smaller literary forms, and his nonfiction writing, especially his essays, are marred by intellectual inconsistency, a lack of objectivity, and even bitterness.
As Bordo argues, the mark of Cartesianism is not so much its claims to neutral objectivity as it is its "passion for intellectual separation, demarcation, and order" (1987, 77, emphasis in original).
What's more, he said, "I think that objectivity is a farce — something that makes no intellectual sense whatsoever.
In his 1967 essay "Objectivity and the Shrinking Self" he lamented the intellectual timidity of the art history of his day.
