Abstract
The everyday use of the term ‘authenticity’ tends to mean ‘real’, ‘genuine’ or ‘true’, and ‘inauthentic’ as ‘fake’, ‘fraud’ or ‘impostor’. These terms are more value-judgments with something inherently better than ‘inauthentic’.The idea of authentic wishes to liberate the individuals from the constraints of their own socio-historical limitations; and to establish being as limitless potential, where we are free to be whatever we want,unconstrained by the values of instrumental or calculative thought prized by social exigencies and ideologies. It means that we have to use our potentialities as free Beings to overcome unfavourable circumstances,fight against, or protest against the ugly situation, but as ‘authentic-being, we at the same time ‘inherit and choose’ our own possibilities. So in transcending our socio-historical condition,our aim should be to be free from constraints, free from ‘the-they’ and be true to who we are.This paper holds brief for the Libertariansand liberals and supports the view that individual choice is important. But then, the community is indispensable in defining and shaping individuals in the light of communitarians.
Highlights
Husserl traced the element of the world in their historical and psychological reality to the final state of ―ideal essences‖, which in turn should give us the explanation of historical and material reality
The everyday use of the termauthenticity‘ tends to meanreal‘, ̳genuine‘ ortrue‘, andinauthentic‘ asfake‘, ̳fraud‘ orimpostor‘. These terms are more value-judgments with something inherently better thaninauthentic‘.The idea of authentic wishes to liberate the individuals from the constraints of their own socio-historical limitations; and to establish being as limitless potential, where we are free to be whatever we want,unconstrained by the values of instrumental or calculative thought prized by social exigencies and ideologies
In transcending our socio-historical condition,our aim should be to be free from constraints, free fromthe-they‘ and be true to who we are.This paper holds brief for the Libertariansand liberals and supports the view that individual choice is important
Summary
Husserl traced the element of the world in their historical and psychological reality to the final state of ―ideal essences‖, which in turn should give us the explanation of historical and material reality. For Heidegger on the contrary, the existent reality should give us an understanding of the essence of reality. Every metaphysical investigation must start from reality as it is in our experience. From existent reality and seeks to determine what it is in its finiteness, that is in its existence and its temporal possibilities for developing different forms of its own existence. If I am able to determine the essence of existent being, I know what being is. In his attempt to inquire into the nature of existence, he proposes what he calls the fundamental ontology and in trying to analyse it, he came up with the concept of authentic and inauthentic existence
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