“Our desires” are part of us as social beings in our society. It is not a form of manipulation, we desire things not because we are victims of commerc...
Daniel Stern' in his book "The Interpersonal World of the Infant" proposed the following stages of a child development: the sequence of the Senses of ...
If most of these operations got support and provided by a variety of publicly funded medical institutions,(which is impossible without previous intens...
You may think that "an alternative identification" is your private enterprise; yet, it should be examined if it is really a private one. Almost any id...
You are absolutely right! It is impossible to understand the whole phenomenon as isolated from what is going on in the society. So many institutions a...
Absolutely! I try not to judge others, the most important for me to find out if I am authentic myself. This problem related to our values (Do we still...
This book is really difficult. Adorno tried to make points related to the situation in Germany in 1960s, and, particularly tried to show that so-calle...
Adorno wrote a book “Jargon of Authenticity,” analyzing the phenomenon and its implications for our societies. "While the jargon of authenticity overf...
I understand your position and your advice. Yet, the problem with authenticity is that it replaces possible ethics in relations with the other. Levina...
Maybe Sartre's waiter is more authentic, his reactions are not finally determined yet. What about reflection? Most likely, a true authenticity lives i...
The problem of authenticity is not just about curious cultural observations or one’s pretension for looking original and unusual. It has much more imp...
Levinas founded his ethics on the relation with the Other, and one of the essential elements was looking directly at the Other’s eyes. For Levinas, it...
I just want to add to your observation that during his suspension and doubt, Descartes was actually also supported somehow by his belief in the existe...
My point is that Descartes's meditation and doubt reflected not just his intellectual way of being, but also the existential-being-in the world. He wa...
Don't you think that Descartes's awareness was supported not only by a simple physical presence of the things in his room but also, more broadly, by r...
If we consider the full continuum of the space opened by loneliness, it is possible to find in the one of its borders death – related existential expe...
You can not separate the truth from the feelings on this topic. It is not about mathematical proof. Feelings, magnified by mass-media, can help to pro...
Does it mean that you deny the existence of the permanent "subject" of consciousness? May I reformulate your point in the following way: consciousness...
According to Bakhtin, even our intimate feelings and experiences are determined by outer-social organization: "The experiential, expressible element a...
I admit your point about our ignorance. Yet, it is impossible to ignore the problems discussed in this thread. I think it would be useful to apply ana...
I agree with you. That is why I am not sure about authenticity. We inherited Cogito as fundamentally split! "The act of Cogito is no longer a question...
I brought this quote to calm down our discussion. :smile: Any kind of human expression assumes the split between the expressed and expressing. Actuall...
I hope you don’t mean that discussing transgenderism with a heterosexual man is an idle talk. I asked you about authenticity just because it is import...
Could you explain your understanding of "a sphere or paradigm of authenticity"? Do you mean that your feelings and thoughts have another (maybe better...
I understand and respect your feelings! How can we differentiate between people's choices and commercializing the most intimate human feelings and bri...
Here is the problem: to become a transgender by many people ( and, by transgenders themselves) is understood as a manifestation of their freedom, as a...
Is that possible to exist "in between"? I've met a transgender who said: "Today mourning I felt as if I was a man, and later as if I was a woman..." S...
Actually, it is an explosive proliferation of gender-related identities. Can this process develop on its own? Are there some forces and institutions b...
Most likely, the thesis “doing injustice is worse than suffering injustice” was constructed by Plato to back his own presentation of the event of Socr...
This system of rules assumes a high level of consciousness, reflection upon one's performances, kind of self-development and readiness to change yours...
Why not? It is a cliche, stereotype. Gender is socially produced and constructed. A construction of new gendered orientation(s) has become a powerful ...
And, by this definition trans-genderism is the matter of somebody's personal self-identification. Both definitions open a way for changing gender. But...
Scott Berman in his essay "Socrates and Callicles on Pleasure" wrote:"Socrates himself is a hedonist... The difference between Callicles and Socrates ...
I replied to gloaming, who wrote:"". If we consider again Socrates's thesis:"doing injustice is worse than suffering injustice”, it was deciphered rec...
We disagree just in terms: Hedonism is based on a desire, and self-indulgence is a pleasure. If you write that self-indulgence is a pressure, that mea...
"Massumi is simply recapitulating in his way". According to Massumi, the subject of enancuation " I do" is the abstract machine. It is a different int...
A good example of how a performative function of " I speak" can be clarified is saying " I do" at a wedding ceremony. As Brian Massumi wrote: "Say " I...
You made good points about what is "context"! Yet, if I take a risk to develop them farther, you argue that each situation of each speech act is uniqu...
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