By Schubert Ogden
Self-Understanding, Metaphysics, and Morals
If an actual self-understanding is authentic only if certain metaphysical
beliefs are true, the truth of these metaphysical beliefs in no way implies any
actual self-understanding. Their truth implies only that a certain self
understanding is possible and that it alone is an authentic self-understanding.
If an actual self-understanding is authentic only if certain metaphysical beliefs are true, the truth of these metaphysical beliefs in no way implies any actual self-understanding. Their truth implies only that a certain self-understanding is possible and that it alone is an authentic self-understanding.
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