Subject-Object problem: those philosophical and scientific problems and confusions arising from the distinction between the contents of subjective experience and of observed objects. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems:… Read More

Subjecthood: the defining capability of human beings to actively shape their social environment in accordance with freely determined values and objectives. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11. 

Substance: Classically, in Western metaphysics, individual realities in which different accidental properties inhere, as for example ‘this apple’ in which inheres redness,etc. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11.