Sweet! - rambling Heidegger-thread time (I accidentally wrote way too much stuff in response to this last night, but F it.)
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First: That's not a stupid question at all. I think "authenticity" is one of the slipperiest elements of Heidegger - it's one of the most critiqued elements too (e.g. Adorno's "Jargon of Authenticity").
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It's because being "authentic" generally means being true to oneself, which at first seems to indicate that there is some predetermined static essential self, but this is the very philosophical tradition old Heidy side-steps.
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Part is knowing that you have to take up a defined role but doing so w/the knowledge that you have chosen that role (negated others) & are responsible for the outcomes therein. This macro-sense of responsibility is not just an "I fucked up trying to do what I was supposed to do,"
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but a responsibility for taking up these ends in the first place (almost a meta-moral responsibility). Since you take it up yourself, you understand the role is not absolutely definitive of the world or of oneself (as .
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I also think "authenticity" is routinely interpreted to mean following subjective whims/fancies, which is asinine. Authenticity is closely entwined w/Heid's notion of the conscience as the self calling out to itself from its deepest reservoirs beyond the purview of "flanuery".
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The difference between this notion of the deep-self & others is that Heid's is not abstract & demarcated from the world-at-large. It's contextually-sensitive & what one is called to do is not static.
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So what differentiates Heid's authentic individual from the flanuer & how to tell a normie?: The authentic individual takes up a social role, knowing full well he could do otherwise, & is true to himself in that the self is not a demarcated ego.
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acknowledgement of societal realities and roles that must be fulfilled by the subject, but conscious distancing of the “self” from these roles.
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