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From On Being and Seeming (Good) by Michele Kennerly

Esse quam videri is a fragment of a larger phrase: it is better ‘to be rather than to seem’ virtuous. In the truncated form, virtue has fallen out. Here lies one key difference between “being” and “seeming” in the thought-worlds of pre-modernity …

From On Being and Seeming (Good) by Michele Kennerly

enticity has bec…e: it is better ‘to be rather than to seem’ virtuous. In the truncated form, virtue has fallen out. Here lies one key difference between “being” and “seeming” in the thought-worlds of pre-modernity versus those of modernity and post-modernity: that we have undergone a shift or even a rift in concern from identifying authentic virtue to identifying authenticity itself. Authenticity has become a virtue, the virtue, even.

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On Being and Seeming (Good)

Michele Kennerly