Kierkegaard Authenticity Analysis

Authenticity is the act of being authentic that is meeting certain quality standards in life. According to Kierkegaard, authenticity is based on an individual finding out authentic faith and becoming true to oneself. This is where a person is not influenced by any factor in becoming themselves, but instead, they develop their character (Ashman, 2007). Kierkegaard argued that the social media news and the Christianity faiths play a significant role in presenting a challenge in hindering human beings from becoming authenticity. He sees that the church, and the media as the intervening blocks which hinders people’s way to real experience, God, and authenticity. He argues that the mass culture creates an environment which makes human beings lose
Religion also affects human beings thinking as it is a tradition that has been passively accepted by people without the inclusion of an authentic thought. According to Heidegger, human beings are born in a world full of conformity as everything we say, do, think, or believe have been said, though and believed before. The society controls human lives, and human decisions are controlled by cultural forces. His idea of authenticity is that people live in a world that moves away from transcends or in some way reflective challenges the inauthentic mode. For people to be authentic, they have to make their stand about their being. People must first acknowledge their ontological anxiety and keep it alive. Ontological anxiety will later become the light of human beings being purifying, refining, and integrating (Ashman,
Human beings experience anguish when they realize the amount of liberty they have and the little they have done using the free will they have. About bad faith, Heidegger argues that human beings have the tendency of allowing themselves to be lost in the present concerns which lead to people becoming separated from themselves and their actions. Bad faith is where human beings believe so much that they tend to forget about their freedom. Bad faith hinders individuals from creating and redefining themselves and well as creating an authentic existence (Farahmandfar, & Samigorganroodi,