Editing Subjectivism (section)

{{Short description|Philosophy that accords primacy only to human thought}}
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'''Subjectivism''' is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience",<ref name="Richardson1983p553"/> instead of shared or communal, and that there is no external or objective truth.

While [[Thomas Hobbes]] was an early proponent of subjectivism,<ref name="Tripathi 1979 p. ">{{cite book | last=Tripathi | first=S.M. | title=Psycho-analytic Concept of Religion | publisher=Ajanta Publications | year=1979 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yU06AAAAMAAJ | access-date=2023-01-18 | page=}}</ref><ref name="Kraus 2002 p. 102">{{cite book | last=Kraus | first=J.S. | title=The Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-521-44972-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sjVoDvsdFgoC&pg=PA102 | access-date=2023-01-18 | page=102}}</ref> the success of this position is historically attributed to [[Descartes]] and his [[methodic doubt]]. He used it as an epistemological tool to prove the opposite (an objective world of facts independent of one's own knowledge, ergo the "Father of Modern Philosophy" inasmuch as his views underlie a scientific worldview).<ref name="Richardson1983p553"/> Subjectivism accords primacy to subjective experience as fundamental of all measure and law.<ref>William Hay (2011) [http://williamhaywriter.blogspot.com/2011/02/subjectivism.html ''Blog entry on subjectivism'']</ref> In extreme forms like [[Solipsism]], it may hold that the nature and existence of every object depends solely on someone's subjective awareness of it. One may consider the qualified [[empiricism]] of [[George Berkeley]] in this context, given his reliance on God as the prime mover of human perception.