The idea of extra-human objectivity is a leftover of the concept of God

Evidence

It might seem that there can exist an extra-historical and extra-human objectivity. But who is the judge of such objectivity? Who is able to put himself in this kind of “standpoint of the cosmos in itself” and what could such a standpoint mean? It can indeed be maintained that here we are dealing with a hangover of the concept of God, precisely in its mystic form of a conception of an unknown God. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1582

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the critique that secular ‘neutral’ standpoints smuggle in theological assumptions — relevant to how Western observers claim neutral objectivity about Islam. — connects to: The idea of God derives from our need for an absolute unobserved observer; Leibniz’s God is a device to negate interiority about other persons; The humanistic Us-object is an unattainable ideal demanding the correlative concept of God — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1032 (+1 more)
• SEED: Angle: how ‘neutral objectivity’ claims in policy and journalism inherit a theological structure Gramsci identified.