ON BEING AUTHENTIC What does it mean to be true to myself?    An issue for reflectionWHAT DOES IT MEANTO BE TRUE TO MYSELF? “This man is so authentic!”  “That girl is fake, a phony!”  “I will not listen to them – I must be true to myself!” What does it mean to be authentic, or true to myself? Who should I be true to? Who do I betray when I am inauthentic, or fake? Who is my true “I”? When...

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) THEMES ON THIS PAGE:  1. CONSCIOUSNESS IN CONSTANT CHANGE 2. TIME AND THE SELF 3. INTUITION AND INTELLECT 4. AUTHENTICITY  Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was an important French philosopher, extremely influential at the beginning of the 20th century, and a Nobel Prize winner in literature. He was born near Paris to a Jewish family, but as a teenager he lost his faith. He did his PhD in philosophy at the University of Paris, and his doctoral thesis was “Time and Free Will,”...