Questions tagged [authenticity]
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Is my existence contingent in experiences of nausea, and if so what is authenticity?
The feeling of nausea that Roquentin, the main character of Sartre’s
novel, famously experienced in a public garden while obsessively
watching a chestnut tree, accounts for his sensitivity to the ...
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Is Heidegger's Dasein Free or Destined?
While Heidegger's Dasein seeks to redefine the human subject in terms of being-in-the-world, does he fully break away from Husserl's subjectivity and lebenswelt?
In his detailed study Not Saved, Peter ...
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What does "authentic action" look like for Sartre?
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what is required of an authentic choice is that it involve a proper
coordination of transcendence and facticity, and thus that it avoid
the pitfalls of an uncoordinated expression of the ...
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What is the best metaphor for not being able to die?
There does seem something out of the ordinary, strange, about having thoughts and feelings, let alone mine. Allow me to say that my rarity makes me valuable.
So dark matter - which makes up 27% of the ...
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What are the arguments against responsibility?
I am not asking what the arguments are for immoralism, but what arguments there are for not doing the valuable thing, when there is clearly an opportunity to right wrongs or be virtuous or impede ...
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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
I was just reading a response to an Answer on this site, where the author of the Question said that the Answer sounded like a paste from ChatGPT.
I re-read the Answer and couldn't really tell if that ...
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Is Levinas only interested in kind of universal Otherness?
Do I "encounter" the Other if I do not know what my "responsibilities" to them are?
rather than formulating an ethical theory, Levinas developed his philosophy in opposition to ...
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Authenticity in art
I know the question some how tricky if not even boring, but the other day during a conference about Guido Reni and Caravaggio’s Saint Peter a group of scholars were discussing if a philological ...
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Is it possible to quantify or even just suggest when someone is to blame for being tricked?
Is it possible to quantify or even just suggest when someone is to blame for being tricked? It is a common adage that gullible people are to blame for it, even if it is not exactly immoral to be ...
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What is the difference between romanticism and existentialism?
Both romanticism and existentialism may be considered as philosophy and literary movements. If I understand it correctly, both romanticism and existentialism see opposition between society and ...
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Can we really "sympathise" with someone who really has tried to do the right thing, yet still think they are inauthentic? [closed]
If someone is not being directly and deliberately inauthentic, can we say their actions are inauthentic, if we sympathise with them?
I just got in a long winded ethical discussion (I think I subscribe ...
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Is my authenticity or inauthenticity anything to do with you?
Is my authenticity or inauthenticity anything to do with you?
I think this may link to ideas about cultural appropriation, as well as appealing for reason of 'morality' (I often wonder if '...
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How is Authenticity affected by external influences?
Originally I had titled this as concerning "being yourself" but it appears this concept is already defined in Philosophy as "Authenticity".
A few specifics to clarify on ...
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Is this a point of contact between Marxism and Heidegger?
Is this a point of contact between Marxism and Heidegger?
Marx complains (bitterly) about exploitation by your - class - enemies
Heidegger complains about inauthenticity, which I might gloss as ...
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Does anyone claim freedom toward death is not for me, but for others?
My "freedom toward death" (Being and Time, p255, SUNY Press, 1 Jan 1996) is key for authenticity, according to Heidegger.
It seems obvious that he means that this freedom is me, and that claim for be ...
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