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The bodily self naturally desires truthful (accurate) emotional and relational meanings to live by. Meanings refer to anything or anyone out there in the lifeworld. Meanings are not only affect-and-value laden; they are also action meanings. Meanings are co-created and co-actualized, for they are always, already having been made by others. Truths, which are always perspectival, and thus partial and never absolute, are meanings that are accurate manifestations of social reality. Becoming mature means refining the accuracy or truthfulness of our (shared) lifeworld meanings (or co-meanings) – what our selves and others that we care about mean to us. Ultimately, truthful selving, ethical selving, and aesthetic selving unfold together as a unified whole.
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Hannush, M.J. (2021). Truth: The Capacity to Seek, Find, and Be in the Service of Emotional and Relational Truth. In: Markers of Psychosocial Maturation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74315-4_11
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