If There's No "Core Self" How Can We Be "Authentic"?
Sheila Heti writes about the term authenticity: “I don’t really understand what you’re being authentic to. The idea of authenticity is that there’s a fixed, certain central self that you can move closer to or further away from…”
Do you agree that authenticity presupposes the notion of a core self? What is authenticity without it?
Is the fact that we speak…
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