/lit/ - Literature

>>15922001
I'm sure you would turn down a blowjob from a cutie on the off chance she has latent herpes. In fact, you turn down such opportunities all the time.

>>15891679
>It simply has nothing whatsoever to do with choice, lifestyle, or changing ones thought or behavior.
>In speech, action, thought, demeanor, or life choice, little to nothing at all. Because authenticity has nothing to do with any of that.
So...uh...what's the point? What *does* it mean?

"Idle chatter" isn't speech or behavior? Doing "what one does" isn't action or demeanor? Sorry man I still don't buy it.

I think if you were to give a positive account of what Heideggerian authenticity is, this would become clear. And what does it have to do with death? Because that's the difference between the two kinds of Dasein, or the two forms, or beingnesses, or what-the-fuck-everings.

I get that Heidegger is trying to talk on a deeper level than psychology or ethics, in terms of the most basic and inescapable aspects of things. But his "being that questions Being," like Kant's "rational being," is a fucking human.