The fundamental world-view underlying this course holds that there exists an objective reality and that human beings are capable of grasping that reality by a process of reason. Although at first glance this view might appear to be indisputable "common sense," it has been hotly disputed by intellectuals through the centuries down to the present day. Currently more fashionable is the notion that objective truth is a "Eurocentric" superstition, that reality is only what one makes of it. There is supposedly a Western reality and a separate Eastern reality, a white people's logic and a black people's logic, truth for women and truth for men—and no rational process can bridge the gaps among these. Reason is viewed, not as a faculty for achieving awareness of reality, but merely as a means of imposing one's arbitrary constructs upon it. Faith and intuitive feelings, and not reason, are supposed to be our guides to ultimate truth. In practice, the inevitable conflicts between the faiths and feelings of these different groups can be resolved in only one manner: force.