“Knowing what you’ve got, comma,” said the living human voice in the playback of the Dictaphone, “knowing what you need, comma, knowing what you can do without, dash. That’s inventory control.”
- Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
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See Marina Oshana, “Autonomy and the Question of Authenticity,” Social Theory and Practice, 33, no. 3 (2007), 411–429, 421.
Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992). Somogy Varga, Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal (New York: Routledge, 2012).
Williams quoted in Varga, 2.
Taylor, 28–29.
Varga, 2.
Ibid., 158.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethics of Identity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 230. See also Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985), Chapter 1.
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road (New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1961), 337.
Ibid., 61–62.
Ibid., 72–73, 76.
. Ibid., 69.
See Harry Frankfurt, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,” and “Identification and Wholeheartedness,” in The Importance of What We Care About (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 11–25, 159–176.
Frankfurt, “Identification and Wholeheartedness,” 164–167.
Oshana, 413–414.
Yates, 13.
See Taylor, Chapter II.
Ibid., 35–37.
Varga, 162.
See Charles Taylor, “What Is Human Agency?,” in Human Agency and Language: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 15–44.
Varga, 96.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity, 16.
Taylor, “What Is Human Agency?,” 19.
Oshana, 424.
Larry May, “Metaphysical Guilt and Moral Taint,” in Collective Responsibility: Five Decades of Debate in Theoretical and Applied Ethics, eds. Larry May and Stacey Hoffman (Savage, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 1991), 239–254.
Oshana, 424.
May, 242–243.
Yates, 114.
Ibid., 114–115.
Ibid., 144–150.
May, 243.
May, 243.
Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew, 90. Quoted in May, 242.
I would like to thank the following people: Rachel Cristy, for her very insightful comments to a version of this paper I presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the APA in April 2015; Adrienne Martin, for her helpful comments and suggestions at another presentation of the paper at California State University, Long Beach in April 2015; Marcia Baron, Allen Wood, and Sandra Lynn Shapshay for reading early drafts; and Katherine Wiley and Hunter Rings for their very helpful conversations and suggestions. All of these contributions served to enrich and improve this paper (though any of its shortcomings are the fault of the author, alone).
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I would like to thank all of those in attendance at my presentation of an abridged version of this paper at the APA Pacific Division Meeting in April 2015, and those attending another presentation of a slightly different abridged version at California State University (Long Beach) later that same month. The comments and discussion in both Q&A sessions were very helpful for my revisions to this draft. In particular I would like to thank Rachel Cristy (Princeton University) for her commentary at the former, and Adrienne Martin (Claremont McKenna College) for her suggestions at the latter. I am indebted to Jonathan Weinberg (University of Arizona), for expertly advising the initial development of my work on authenticity, and to the philosophy department of Seattle Pacific University, for reading and discussing with me a late draft of the paper. I would also like to thank Marcia Baron, Allen Wood, and Sandra Lynn Shapshay (all Indiana University, Bloomington) for reading drafts of the paper, and Katherine Wiley and Hunter Rings for their very helpful suggestions and conversations.
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Rings, M. Authenticity, Self-fulfillment, and Self-acknowledgment. J Value Inquiry 51, 475–489 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-017-9589-6
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