Everyone says that you ought to be your authentic self. But what if your authentic self is an asshole...

t. Martin Heidegger

>i have no argubment so take dis u heiddegerfag!!

Come on guys, at least try harder. I fucking despise logical positivsm and social constructionism, but I have yet to read a convincing dscriptiong of what constitutes the "real self". Hell, even Jung just gives vague answers and proposes a method of individuation without ever considering that people themselves might not know who they truly are. Ask yourselves, why do you do certain things? Why do you like certain things? Why do you think about certain things? Would you do all those things if you were borin in a completely different culture and location? Go ahead and reply with a pseud answer you brainlets.

Even an asshole isn't an asshole 100% of the time.

Most assholes are employed you know, because you have to, to survive.

Heidegger talks about the necessity of and the struggle against the social understandings that faces every one of us. Coming to terms with society is one of the many struggles for authenticity that we have, besides grappling with the temporality of our various stands that we take.

Can't avoid becoming absorbed in the world because we need to be involved in order to survive. Can't avoid the social practices of Das Man because it provides the framework that makes certain existential possibilities intelligible. Can't be authentic by following in the footsteps provided by Das Man because we'd be allowing the social practices to overcome us while we're busy with our involvements in the world and the decisions we make would not be our own.

nice quints and triplets. I don't think we'll ever become the übermensch Nietzsche envisioned us to become though. I think we are just a bridge to something greater, which is most likely superintelligent robots. They will transcend any human notions of value and accurately represent reality; lacking in meaning and pursuing only perfection. Humans simply can't do this, we are imbued with foul notions of humility and altruism which have no place in reality.

I think Leibniz' idea of perpetually unfolding monadalogical substance is one way to address this concern.
It just completely does away with the idea of causation in favor of pre-established harmony

Not sure exactly what the existentialists would say though.

It's actually quite ironic to read Heidegger, because he stresses authenticity and Being-Towards-Death, and resistance to Das Man, but he still became a Nazi.

It has to be the epitome of postmodernism to be able to articulate what people should do, but never be able to actualize it in yourself.

This should have been aimed here

>what people should do, but never be able to actualize it in yourself
sounds like someone i know

t. Hegel