Does suppressing the bad in ourselves actually do anything to get rid of it in humanity or does it just make us acceptable by society? — MonfortS26
Amen.What do you mean by "intuition"? — Metaphysician Undercover
And I would add the question 'what do you mean by genuine?'.
Isn't genuineness a little like naturalness? We say cities are unnatural for humans, yet we regard them as natural for ants and bees. I would argue that anything any human does is natural for a human - thereby rendering the word meaningless. I suspect the same applies to genuine - and to its close Sartrean cousin 'authentic'. — andrewk
But doesn't morality deal with attempting to control such instincts? Don't we determine that some instincts are not good, so we attempt to curb them, opting for a course which is better? Isn't this how we evolve to be better beings, by suppressing such instincts in favour of principles which we have determined with reason, to be a better source of direction? So to be a better being is to analyze the good and bad of such innate knowledge, replacing the bad with newly developed principles which are understood to be better. — Metaphysician Undercover
What do you mean by masks? How can we be anything other than who we are? — MonfortS26
I believe that the key to being genuine in life lies in your intuition. Intuition is the core of who we are as a person and everything else is just whatever our intuition chooses to perceive us to be. The way to live in the present is to be in touch with your intuition.
Anyone disagree? — MonfortS26
I am who I am regardless--I can't really be anything else. — Bitter Crank
The problem there is that there is no such "you". — apokrisis
So how can you wear masks without getting confused? And what if you're already confused? Wouldn't any sense of self be a mask? — MonfortS26
When I was 24 I grew a beard to look more bohemian hippy (1970). When it got long enough to call it a beard, I recognized it as being ME, not a mask. I've kept the beard for 46 years. (It's now white, where it was then a nice brown.) It is still me. — Bitter Crank
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