Inauthentic Choice
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An Inauthentic Choice is a free human choice that scores low in an intentional choice measure.
- AKA: Disintentional Choice.
- Context:
- It can aim towards achieving an Inauthentic Life (being a person who others want them to be).
- Example(s):
- a Choice from Self-Deception.
- a Choice from Addiction.
- a Choice to Binge, especially by a person who wants to be moderate.
- a Choice from Inculcation, such as a suicide bomber.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Poseur, Intentional Life, Suicide Choice.
References
1877
- (Tolstoy, 1877) ⇒ Leo Tolstoy. (1877). “Anna Karenina - Part III Chapter XVI."
- QUOTE: "What can I write?" she thought. "What can I decide upon alone? What do I know? What do I want? What is there I care for?" Again she felt that her soul was beginning to be split in two. She was terrified again at this feeling, and clutched at the first pretext for doing something which might divert her thoughts from herself. "I ought to see Alexey" (so she called Vronsky in her thoughts); "no one but he can tell me what I ought to do. I'll go to Betsy's, perhaps I shall see him there," she said to herself, completely forgetting that when she had told him the day before that she was not going to Princess Tverskaya's, he had said that in that case he should not go either. She went up to the table, wrote to her husband, "I have received your letter. — A."; and, ringing the bell, gave it to the footman.