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Single Idea 7582
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
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Full Idea
Striving to become what one already is is a very difficult task, the most difficult of all, because every human being has a strong natural bent and passion to become something more and different.
Gist of Idea
Becoming what one is is a huge difficulty, because we strongly aspire to be something else
Source
Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], 'Subjective')
Book Ref
Kierkegaard,Søren: 'A Kierkegaard Anthology', ed/tr. Bretall,Robert [Princeton 1946], p.208
A Reaction
Presumably most people continually drift between vanity and low self-esteem, and between unattainable daydreams and powerless immediate reality. That creates the stage on which Kierkegaard's interesting battle would have to be fought.
The
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[changing one's self into something more genuine]:
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There is a self-determing power in each person, which makes them what they are
[Cudworth]
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20759
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Feelings are prior to intelligence; we should be content to live with our simplest feelings
[Rousseau]
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23236
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Freedom means making yourself become true to your essential nature
[Fichte]
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8930
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The in-itself must become for-itself, which requires self-consciousness
[Hegel]
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7073
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I am a creative nothing, out of which I myself create everything
[Stirner]
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5274
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Young Hegelians proposed changing our present consciousness for liberating critical consciousness
[Marx/Engels]
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22095
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There are aesthetic, ethical and religious subjectivity
[Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]
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20314
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People want to lose themselves in movements and history, instead of being individuals
[Kierkegaard]
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7582
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Becoming what one is is a huge difficulty, because we strongly aspire to be something else
[Kierkegaard]
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6869
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Nietzsche thinks the human condition is to overcome and remake itself
[Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
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2874
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Man is the animal whose nature has not yet been fixed
[Nietzsche]
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20275
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Most people think they are already complete, but we can cultivate ourselves
[Nietzsche]
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20132
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To become what you are you must have no self-awareness
[Nietzsche]
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7150
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By developing herd virtues man fixes what has up to now been the 'unfixed animal'
[Nietzsche]
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7177
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Virtues from outside are dangerous, and they should come from within
[Nietzsche]
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4513
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Virtuous people are inferior because they are not 'persons', but conform to a fixed pattern
[Nietzsche]
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20315
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'Existenz' is the potential being, which I could have, and ought to have
[Jaspers]
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20317
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Mundane existence is general, falling under universals, but Existens is unique to individuals
[Jaspers]
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20319
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We want the correct grasp on being that is neither solipsism nor absorption in the crowd
[Jaspers]
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15581
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Dasein is always only that which it has chosen to be
[Heidegger]
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20453
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Heidegger says we must either choose an inauthentic hero, or choose yourself as hero
[Heidegger, by Critchley]
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22232
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Authenticity is taking responsibility for a situation, with all its risks and emotions
[Sartre]
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20760
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Sincerity is not authenticity, because it only commits to one particular identity
[Sartre, by Aho]
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22231
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We flee from the anguish of freedom by seeing ourselves objectively, as determined
[Sartre]
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3844
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Existentialism says man is whatever he makes of himself
[Sartre]
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20754
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It is dishonest to offer passions as an excuse
[Sartre]
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22230
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Sartre gradually realised that freedom is curtailed by the weight of situation
[Sartre, by Daigle]
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6690
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A standard problem for existentialism is the 'sincere Nazi'
[Graham]
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20753
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The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context
[Aho]
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