Striving for Authenticity (III of III)

Fallenness and the Impossibility of Achieving Full Authenticity (Vol. 2, Issue 21)

How ironic that certain stages of life, like adolescence, are associated with individuality. Some sophisticated teenagers, like me (sadly), dive into Nietzsche’s (1883/1999) Thus Spake Zarathustra in their teenage years. Adolescents tend to ingest lots of existential literature, not to mention, of course, the all-time favorite, Salinger’s Catcher in the…