Objectivity

Copleston mentions 'objective history' in his Introduction to Volume IV of the History of Philosophy.  Which to me, this is a farce. What man is truly objective? The most detached? The most indebted? The rich? The poor? The “middling class”? I say none of the above. Objectivity is the goal, not the accomplishment. Lessing says he would rather have the search for truth than truth itself; Lessing made the decision and we are all stuck with the consequences. The search for truth is our only goal; our Idols prevent us from ever really telling the 'truth'.

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