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Meaning and Authenticity
Bernard Lonergan and Charles Taylor on the Drama of Authentic Human Existence
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Artikel-Nr:
9781487520076
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.12.2008
Seiten:
146
Autor:
Brian J Braman
Gewicht:
240 g
Format:
228x152x10 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Brian J. Braman is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College.
The language of self-fulfilment, self-realization, and self-actualization (in short, ‘authenticity’) has become common in contemporary culture. The desire to be authentic is implicitly a desire to shape one’s self in accordance with an ideal, and the concern for what it means to be authentic is, in many ways, the modern form of the ancient question what is the life of excellence? However, this notion of authenticity has its critics: Christopher Lasch, for instance, who equates it with a form of narcissism and Theodor Adorno, who views it as a glorification of privatism.