What is the truth which personal authenticity expresses?

 

I don’t presume to know what “The Truth” is, for I agree with the postmodernist view that there is no such thing as objective truth, a truth independent of the observer. As quantum physics demonstrates, the very act of observing something, alters it, and so you can not objectively experience or know anything. Moreover in the unity of the quantum soup of existence, nothing exists separate from me or objective to me.

Yet elsewhere I have written of the love of truth as one of the skills which enable personal authenticity. So seemingly I am suggesting that there is a truth with which our authenticity comports. And I am. But where might we find it?

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On Authenticity:

O air-borne voice! long since, severely clear,
A cry like thine in my own heart I hear:
“Resolve to be thyself; and know that he,
Who finds himself, loses his misery!”
— Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), in “Self Dependence”

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