quotefile: authenticity
From: Hague, William J. (2010) "Development through values and intuition in the Theory of Positive Disintegration." Heksis, no. 1. It takes time to develop from being a "subject" in the immediate world of unreflected sensations to becoming an authentic person in the adult world of meaning. It is a journey, not an arrival. There is no static state of perfection. Authenticity means a continuous asking questions of self and life, moving from immediate experience to understanding, and beyond understanding to reflection, and through reflection to judgment and, ultimately to questions of worthwhileness - questions of value. It is all process towards higher levels and entrance into that transcendent domain of ultimate meaning and metaethical questions of value where subject-object dualities disappear. Authenticity, at core, is a process and a function of what questions we ask of life. (p. 3-4)
Objectivity is objectivity; it is not certainty; nothing important in life is held together with the bands of certainty. But, as Plato appreciated, and Whitehead after him, the lives of the best human beings are held together by other "bands" - the lines of beauty, harmony and relationship. In that beauty is goodness to which, through fineness of feeling, individuals respond intuitively in accord with their level of development. (p. 7)
Objectivity is objectivity; it is not certainty; nothing important in life is held together with the bands of certainty. But, as Plato appreciated, and Whitehead after him, the lives of the best human beings are held together by other "bands" - the lines of beauty, harmony and relationship. In that beauty is goodness to which, through fineness of feeling, individuals respond intuitively in accord with their level of development. (p. 7)