Identity
The Value-Responsive Self: Authenticity as Alignment With Truth
What if we become who we are by aligning ourselves with truth?
Daniel Frost
September 23, 2022
What if we become who we are by aligning ourselves with truth?
Influential voices tell us that to be yourself, you need to reject external sources of meaning—and follow “your truth.” But detaching authenticity from truth leads to emptiness, not fulfillment.
As long as we love ourselves more, so the popular precept goes, our happiness will also grow. Is that really true? Not if our self-love disregards the reality of truth and our need to love that most.
A greater awareness of sexual pleasure is not enough to confront the serious challenges young people face navigating sexuality in America today.
The central focus today on consent is not enough. Without seeing individuals as something more than an object of sexual gratification, people will continue to be hurt and misused.