RE: Acting authentically in the face of survival
July 27, 2012 at 6:58 pm
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2012 at 7:10 pm by Categories+Sheaves.)
(July 27, 2012 at 1:41 pm)Annik Wrote: How can one be authentic when we have to worry about survival? Does it really count as being authentic if you're trying to be as true to yourself as possible?There's a really good reason why Sartre did a precarious dance around "I didn't choose to be born" and why Beauvoir insists on our ability to choose suicide in this thing: in order for living to be 'authentic', we have to be able to choose to live. If you take your having to do x in order to survive to mean something like you must do x, you've already dropped the existentialist position. The freedom/responsibility stuff of existentialism comes from how you realize your choices, not what choices you're confronted with.
