My question about being authentic is how do any of us know when or even what is our authentic sleves? Is it acting in such a way we rid ourselves of any internal censor or even reflection of what we are doing? And, how does one avoid that each one of us has an essential unchangable self, a nominalistic essentialism? Which is a just another way of saying mine and thine and casigating thines as aliens others that, in the end, must be destroyed to keep mine authentic.
Doesn't authenticity require being with others? And, is so, again, how done we know we are being authentic?
Thanks for the comment Damon :) I think we know or at least can know when we are being inauthentic. So, we know when we are being devious for instance or hypocritical and if we can recognise our inauthentic selves then we should be able to know when we are being authentic as well. We may feel this differently though.
It doesn't necessitate being with others I don't think although it may well be difficult to be inauthentic if we simply existed in a single cell with no-one around. We may well be able to delude ourselves though.
My question about being authentic is how do any of us know when or even what is our authentic sleves? Is it acting in such a way we rid ourselves of any internal censor or even reflection of what we are doing? And, how does one avoid that each one of us has an essential unchangable self, a nominalistic essentialism? Which is a just another way of saying mine and thine and casigating thines as aliens others that, in the end, must be destroyed to keep mine authentic.
Doesn't authenticity require being with others? And, is so, again, how done we know we are being authentic?
Thanks for the comment Damon :) I think we know or at least can know when we are being inauthentic. So, we know when we are being devious for instance or hypocritical and if we can recognise our inauthentic selves then we should be able to know when we are being authentic as well. We may feel this differently though.
It doesn't necessitate being with others I don't think although it may well be difficult to be inauthentic if we simply existed in a single cell with no-one around. We may well be able to delude ourselves though.