TY - JOUR
T1 - Be Yourself! How Am I Not myself?
T2 - II. Society and Politics: Between Essentialist and Existentialist Authenticity
AU - Abulof, Uriel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs is mostly animalistic; only self-actualization is uniquely human. Yet even this token of “human exceptionalism” is hampered by subscribing to essentialist, rather than existentialist, authenticity. If the former is just about recovering an innate, latent, core, it robs humans of their freedom to (re)create who they are. If we dare to choose, we cannot but be ourselves.
AB - Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs is mostly animalistic; only self-actualization is uniquely human. Yet even this token of “human exceptionalism” is hampered by subscribing to essentialist, rather than existentialist, authenticity. If the former is just about recovering an innate, latent, core, it robs humans of their freedom to (re)create who they are. If we dare to choose, we cannot but be ourselves.
KW - Authenticity
KW - Essentialism
KW - Existentialism
KW - Human needs
KW - Maslow
KW - Self-actualization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85031723455&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12115-017-0183-0
DO - 10.1007/s12115-017-0183-0
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AN - SCOPUS:85031723455
SN - 0147-2011
VL - 54
SP - 530
EP - 532
JO - Society
JF - Society
IS - 6
ER -