This is the image Yuval Noah Harari paints in his book ‘Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow’ to show the nature of intersubjective reality. An objective reality is a measurable and concrete reality that exists even outside our perception and knowledge. In addition to the two, there is another dominant form of reality, which Harari calls intersubjective reality. History reveals voluminous situations in which intersubjective reality has dominated the life of human beings in various ways. Let us take monarchy as a specific example and see how its intersubjective reality has given kings legitimacy and made the people obedient.

Source: Ethiopian News December 24, 2019 08:48 UTC