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Authenticity (or individuality, or autonomy) depends on integration - overcoming conflicts within ourselves. Absolutisation - adopting absolute beliefs associated with groups and authorities - interferes with that integration and thus leads to 'bad faith' or a lack of authenticity. This is a tributary video to no. 6 on authenticity in a series on Middle Way Philosophy, and explains how the ideas of thinkers like Sartre on authenticity can be supportive of the practice of the Middle Way.
Authenticity (or individuality, or autonomy) depends on integration - overcoming conflicts within ourselves. Absolutisation - adopting absolute beliefs associated with groups and authorities - interferes with that integration and thus leads to 'bad faith' or a lack of authenticity. This is a tributary video to no. 6 on authenticity in a series on Middle Way Philosophy, and explains how the ideas of thinkers like Sartre on authenticity can be supportive of the practice of the Middle Way.
