Day 2- The Ethics of Authenticity
4.inescapable horizons
humans are dialogical
take "language" in a broad sense: not only the words we speak, including the "language" of art, of gesture, of love, and the like.
No one acquires the language needed for self definition on their own. But we are inducted into these in exchange with others. ("significant others")
common enjoyment
The making and sustaining of our identity remains dialogical throughout our lives.
Your feeling can't determine what is significant. Soft relativism self-destructs.
"In stressing the legitimacy of choice between certain options, we very often find ourselves depriving the options of their significance."
I can define my identity only against the backgroud of things that matters.
Authenticity is not the enemy of demands that emanate from beyond the self; it supposes such demands.
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say/talk in reason to people who
allegiance 拥护
for the sake of some career advancement
shape their lives in the light of this ideal(properly understood)
what ... consists in
condition the fulfilment of
In what follows, I want to...
a practical point in doing
for purposes of this discussion, I want to...
solitary reflection, solitary artist
to the fullest degree possible
come as best we can to understand
wrenching breakups =ruptures déchirantes
hermit= un ermite 隐士
emanate from= émaner de
take these in reverse order
revive the tradition
people deem them to have it = juger
open to criticism
a better account
pan out= marcher comme prévu, bien tourner
sexual orientations
acceptance of diversity
Cop Out=se dérober à
go with the flow, conform with the masses
otherwise put,
our ties to others
issues of significance
