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Authenticity is a concept of personality in the fields of psychology, existential psychotherapy, existentialist philosophy, and aesthetics. In existentialism, authenticity is the degree to which a person's actions are congruent with their values and desires, despite external pressures to social conformity.
Existentialism is a family of philosophical views and inquiry that study existence from the individual's perspective and explore the struggle to lead authentic lives despite the apparent absurdity or incomprehensibility of the universe.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... it was republished by Harvard University Press with the title The Ethics of Authenticity. [3] See also ...
In the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Being-in-itself is contrasted with the being of persons, which he terms Dasein.(Heidegger 1962, p. H.27) "Dasein means: care of the Being of beings as such that is ecstatically disclosed in care, not only of human Being...Dasein is itself by virtue of its essential relation to Being in general."
However, he does use the short formula "to stay true to oneself" to characterize the modern ideal of authenticity and differentiates it from the older ideal of being a morally sincere person. Trilling draws on a wide range of literature in defense of his thesis, citing many of the key (and some more obscure) Western writers and thinkers of the ...
Charles Burke Guignon (February 1, 1944 – May 23, 2020) was an American philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of South Florida. [1] He is known for his expertise on Martin Heidegger's philosophy and existentialism. [2] He became a member of the Florida Philosophical Association in the early 2000s. [3]
Authenticity (philosophy), a particular way of dealing with the external world, being faithful to internal rather than external ideas; Authentication (law), evidence proven to be genuine; SS Authenticity, a coastal tanker; Authenticity Party, an Egyptian political party; Authentic (show jumping horse), an Olympic show jumper ridden by Beezie Madden
Simulacra and Simulation (French: Simulacres et Simulation) is a 1981 philosophical treatise by the philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard, in which he seeks to examine the relationships between reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.