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This 3 page paper examines Heidegger's concept of authenticity and Plato's ideas about beauty. The two ideas are compared and contrasted. The cave allegory is referenced. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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what is a fiction of the mind. For Heidegger, authenticity means that one is just being themselves, but it is actually more than that. Many people confuse the self. Heidegger
(1989) claims that one must be in the moment, or be in the world. They must be whole to be authentic (1989). He writes: "What procedure best brings about the
mindfulness of be-ing? The saying of the truth" (1989, 10). Being mindful to some extent is the embrace of the truth, or the recognition of "what is." He also
says: "Thus only mindfulness of "enowning" is appropriate for thinking" (1989, 6). Heidegger (1989) further states that "because todays on-going mania for "lived-experience" would all the more confuse whatever is
being said about the attunement, without any mindfulness of it-for this reason alone an orienting word must again and again be said "about" attunement" (15). Here, there is a sense
that mindfulness is really the key to authenticity. Plato also looks at the present state as the only state that humans have available to them, but also realizes that there
has to be some superior knowledge or people would not know what anything was. How can the color yellow be described? How can one know what is beautiful or what
is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--something that had come from The Republic--to demonstrate the concept. In the allegory, humans are born
and live in a cave, but they are chained and shackled. They can see light only in the distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate
form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans only having a slight knowledge of reality, one can take Platos form theory
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