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Jordan Peterson, Contrapoints & Profilicity ( @carefreewandering)

The Sisyphus 55 Podcast

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The Importance of Authenticity in Academic Philosophy

We moved on from an age of authenticity that's a phrase used or expression used by the philosopher Charles Taylor to what I call an age of profilicity. So in short this basically means you know authenticity is basically the pursuit of originality. And it means that each individual has to somehow pursue originality and to find yourself or create yourself, right? In this way you shape really a valid identity. This transition from the mode of authenticity to the mode ofprofilicity is visible everywhere in society. But nevertheless it's just a gradual difference. Of course there are also the kind of the quality check mechanisms in place that you mentioned. We try to present to create this profile of like a

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