This book presents a creative approach to the problem of individual authenticity. What is authenticity? What are its necessary conditions? How is an authentic self possible in society? What are the relationships of authenticity, morality, and happiness? The book examines a wide range of questions in Eastern and Western thought, to which it gives novel answers.
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Once upon a time, when I was a small child, listening to my beloved grandmother's explanation of the stars according to traditional Chinese legend and gazing at the mysterious night sky in which gleaming stars shined, I asked, "Grandma, why do so many stars exist in the sky and why are they so different?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
zhi xiang, having particular truth, authenticity connotes, dual authenticity, universal dao, anonymous nobody, necessary condition for authenticity, anonymous nobodies, ensnare ourselves, good horizon, authentic mind, individualized roles, authentic person, disintegrated self, authenticity question, moral authenticity, subjective authenticity, jing shen, unexamined lives, examined life, authentic being, authenticity problem, profound person, role engagement, necessary antagonism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Analects, The Traditional Chinese Conception of Authenticity, Jean-Paul Sartre, The Doctrine of Mean, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jack London, Martin Eden, Martin Heidegger, The Great Learning, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Cheng Hao, Dao De Jing, Wang Yangming, Zhang Zhai, Albert Camus, Ashley Wilkes, Feng Yulan, Josiah Royce, Madame Bovery, Robert Frost New!
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Once upon a time, when I was a small child, listening to my beloved grandmother's explanation of the stars according to traditional Chinese legend and gazing at the mysterious night sky in which gleaming stars shined, I asked, "Grandma, why do so many stars exist in the sky and why are they so different?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
zhi xiang, having particular truth, authenticity connotes, dual authenticity, universal dao, anonymous nobody, necessary condition for authenticity, anonymous nobodies, ensnare ourselves, good horizon, authentic mind, individualized roles, authentic person, disintegrated self, authenticity question, moral authenticity, subjective authenticity, jing shen, unexamined lives, examined life, authentic being, authenticity problem, profound person, role engagement, necessary antagonism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Analects, The Traditional Chinese Conception of Authenticity, Jean-Paul Sartre, The Doctrine of Mean, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jack London, Martin Eden, Martin Heidegger, The Great Learning, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Cheng Hao, Dao De Jing, Wang Yangming, Zhang Zhai, Albert Camus, Ashley Wilkes, Feng Yulan, Josiah Royce, Madame Bovery, Robert Frost New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Sincerity and Authenticity (Harvard Paperbacks) by Lionel Trilling on 7 pages
- Martin Eden (Penguin American Library) by Jack London on 6 pages
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger on 5 pages
- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre on 4 pages
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell on 4 pages
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