Hot chocolate is fast becoming my beverage of choice. Sipping from this cup is dispelling an entire morning's worth of angst and ire. (That and an email from Katie
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1) Yeah soy milk, go for it. Some cow somewhere will probably thank you. 2) What does drinking cocoa define you as? What is the identity you seek to appropriate across these beverages? 3) The...the powerder has...fibre? I...but...powder? fibre? fibre in a powder? Well...Well. ok then.
1) Will they? I dunno. I doubt there are any cows with beliefs or any intentional attitudes towards me, really.
2) I've been trying to figure out what I meant by this since you called me on it, and am a little ashamed to say I'm not really sure.
The closest thing I could think was something like this:
- Habits of behavior inform and maintain identities. So, smokers and alcoholics and skydivers and soap opera watchers all have their identity informed by their habits. (Vegans too?) And if their identity would crumble under other forces, the force of habit maintains their continuity. It stays stuck together.
- So any habit I form, such as cocoa drinking, would play some role in my identity
( ... )
Do you understand? It's like an authenticity thing, in the Sartrean sense, I think. I think 'authenticity' as a term is mainly from Heidegger, but Sartre's what-could-be-called-authenticity (i.e. the opposite of 'bad faith') would be to be aware that any identity you form you can only 'be in the mode of not-being it', i.e. that your identity cannot be predicable of you in the same way that a factual property is, can never be solid or reliable, but must be freely chosen at every moment to maintain it. Or something. And he also said that the 'world' you 'bring into existence', i.e. the way in which you choose to relate to things and perceive such, such as what drinks you drink, is the reverse image of your identity - that your whole self exists as plastered onto the things you deal with. which would accord well with habits of behaviour forming and maintaining identities.
It's been a while since I read or thought about the term "authenticity" in its historical, philosophical context (as opposed to my bootleg usage), but I think Sartre used it at some point as being something favorable about making radical choices of self-creation rather than, as you say, having bad faith and allowing one's identity to be formed from without.
I disagree, though, with Sartre's conception of our radical freedom being real but merely unrealized. I don't think that there's much freedom at all. But that's why I'm so paranoid about how the (externally created, but internalized?) semantic weight of such things as habits might pollute what little authentic freedom I have.
This is all personal speculation and not meant to be any sort of coherent theory or sound reasoning.
Cocoa also has phytoestrogens, a type of antioxidant that prevent the growth and spread of lung, breast, and prostate cancer. These are also found in vegetables, soy products, beans, peas, coffee, and tea. So drink up young man!
Reference: Altshul, S. Health Magazine. June 2006.
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2) What does drinking cocoa define you as? What is the identity you seek to appropriate across these beverages?
3) The...the powerder has...fibre? I...but...powder? fibre? fibre in a powder? Well...Well. ok then.
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2) I've been trying to figure out what I meant by this since you called me on it, and am a little ashamed to say I'm not really sure.
The closest thing I could think was something like this:
- Habits of behavior inform and maintain identities. So, smokers and alcoholics and skydivers and soap opera watchers all have their identity informed by their habits. (Vegans too?) And if their identity would crumble under other forces, the force of habit maintains their continuity. It stays stuck together.
- So any habit I form, such as cocoa drinking, would play some role in my identity ( ... )
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I think 'authenticity' as a term is mainly from Heidegger, but Sartre's what-could-be-called-authenticity (i.e. the opposite of 'bad faith') would be to be aware that any identity you form you can only 'be in the mode of not-being it', i.e. that your identity cannot be predicable of you in the same way that a factual property is, can never be solid or reliable, but must be freely chosen at every moment to maintain it. Or something. And he also said that the 'world' you 'bring into existence', i.e. the way in which you choose to relate to things and perceive such, such as what drinks you drink, is the reverse image of your identity - that your whole self exists as plastered onto the things you deal with. which would accord well with habits of behaviour forming and maintaining identities.
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I disagree, though, with Sartre's conception of our radical freedom being real but merely unrealized. I don't think that there's much freedom at all. But that's why I'm so paranoid about how the (externally created, but internalized?) semantic weight of such things as habits might pollute what little authentic freedom I have.
This is all personal speculation and not meant to be any sort of coherent theory or sound reasoning.
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Reference: Altshul, S. Health Magazine. June 2006.
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