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Experience is subjective, but thinking connects man to the universal. For instance, the variables that affect the subjectivity of experience are things such as our characterological disposition, inherent traits, our physical sense-organs as that pertains to how we perceive phenomena like light & color; but when we think conceptually, what happens is our subjectivity converges with the universal concepts, which everyone through thinking can obtain. On an additional note, this is why morality cannot be imposed externally, because if each individual comes to an understanding of himself, morality arises as an understanding of the human being. When I see a table, the subjective qualia impresses upon me such as its color, but in my thinking activity I've acquired the concept of a table, which is universal; also in the midst of that, I form my own mental picture of the table, which mediates between the subjective perception of mine, to the universal concept.
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When I see a table, the subjective qualia impresses upon me such as its color, but in my thinking activity I've acquired the concept of a table, which is universal; also in the midst of that, I form my own mental picture of the table, which mediates between the subjective perception of mine, to the universal concept.
I say externally because we must distinguish between characterological dispositions which are subjective and refers to our temperaments, impulses, habitual reactions and inherited traits; none of which actually originate from free thinking which is not bound by the subjectivity of the foregoing.
If I conform to a rule imposed externally, I cannot be free; neither am I free if I oppose a rule in rebellion. If I follow a rule simply because it is considered the "Moral" or right thing, then I am also not free. If we take a closer look at morality, we see that external order and law is an abstraction in the history of individual moral actions; that means in a given moment, there cannot be a rigid prescription for the "Right" act, but that it arises intuitively in the human being, and it is from these acts that we derive external rules and order.
In essence, the core of what I'm stressing is this: perception and experience of an individual is subjective but thinking connects man as individual to the universal. The mental pictures we form help us mediate between the two. My mental picture of a "Cat" differs from yours, but it mediates between how I perceive cats (subjectively), from yours, but we both apprehend the same concept of a cat. That said, with morality it is never black and white, though external rules act as indicators and steps, true morality must always arise intuitively in the individual and sovereign human being.
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To be in the now means to be. Time and its perception arises from the rhythms of the bodily constitution, but the "I" stands above and before the former; to be in the now is to be in the I. You can rise again now simply because your thinking activity is immediate rather than given from without, therefore it is self-generative: your thoughts are then mediated by feeling, and results in willing (action). It is that we constantly only interact with the shadows or reflections of thoughts; we only analyze from a distance, the products of thinking, such as words-forms or whatever objects that are produced, but when we are actually active within the stream of the thinking process itself? We are divorced from the process, and only apprehend the output. As long as this remains, man only lives in retrospect and in reflection. In essence, what I'm really stressing here is the thinking activity; no true knowledge can come to be if the very activity of cognition is not inhabited consciously.