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What are important freedoms, and what are the conditions for their exercise? The influence of society has a profound impact on one s ability to execute a distinct pattern of existence. Though certain outward circumstances make liberty possible, there are also internal enabling conditions. Authenticity is the freedom to constitute an inward principle of organization, one that articulates a measured valuation of and for the self. Yet, authenticity requires an awareness of one s responsibility for freedom, as well as the recognition that self-expression is meaningful only in a social context.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
What are important freedoms, and what are the
conditions for their exercise? The influence of
society has a profound impact on one s ability to
execute a distinct pattern of existence. Though
certain outward circumstances make liberty possible,
there are also internal enabling conditions.
Authenticity is the freedom to constitute an inward
principle of organization, one that articulates a
measured valuation of and for the self. Yet,
authenticity requires an awareness of one s
responsibility for freedom, as well as the
recognition that self-expression is meaningful only
in a social context. Consequently, the established
and inherited patterns of communal value are at odds
with one s capacity for original self-definition.
This book examines the problem that occurs when the
enabling conditions for freedom are themselves
obstacles to authenticity. It argues that
self-overcoming is the necessary spiritual resource
for the material production of an authentic self.
Those who are interested in Nietzsche, structural
oppression as a limiting or constricting factor, and
the African-American example of struggle and
overcoming will find this work especially helpful.
Autorenporträt
Charles H. Watson, PhD: Studied Philosophy and Humanities at
Stanford University. Assistant Professor of African and African
American Studies and Philosophy at Earlham College in Richmond,
Indiana. Research interests include 19th Century Philosophy and
Black Social Thought, classical as well as contemporary.