
Full text loading...
Towards an ethics of authentic interaction
Though authenticity is a popular ideal, it is at the same time contested in philosophical debates, in particular if it is regarded as an ethical ideal. Sanneke de Haan convincingly develops an enactivist approach to authenticity as a relational concept with moral and critical potentials. In my comment, I try to further develop the implications of this approach for understanding authenticity as an ethical ideal. I finally ask whether the ethics of an openness towards the other needs to be supplemented by universal principles of equity and how the relational approach can be extended beyond immediate interpersonal encounters.