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If There's No "Core Self" How Can We Be "Authentic"?

If There's No "Core Self" How Can We Be "Authentic"?

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Zohar Atkins
Nov 24, 2020
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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…”

  1. Do you agree that authenticity presupposes the notion of a core self? What is authenticity without it?

  2. Is the fact that we speak…

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