Dear Fellow Philosophers
I'm not at all sure there is a quick remedy for the agony of this debate. If all I wanted to do was confirm for myself and my fellows that my and their reflection is underwritten by authenticity then all I would need to do is grant to all and sundry a positive value such that "I am I and you are you".
While I might be willing, as a matter of convention, to do this at the bus stop, by another convention I am not able to do this when it comes to my private thoughts and my public profession - (recalling that a professor is meant to profess).
Give ourselves 16 years of daily contact and I'm sure we could determine (re-determine) these conventions in ways that would be satisfying.
A short course on the work of some of the philsophers mentioned in this debate could take us a long way but that way would require some primary giving over to the existential.
I have found a reading that looks, in brief (if in a complex way) with Heidegger, Sartre and Winnicott on False Consciousness, Bad Faith and the Good Enough Mother.
The False Dasein: From Heidegger to Sartre and Psychoanalysis. by Jon Mills © - Published in the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 1997, 28(1), 42-65.
http://www.processpsychology.com/Dasein.htm
enjoy
keith russell
OZ newcastle
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