10.  The Imperative of Authenticity
Channel: Rethinking Existentialism
Date: 2016-02-15

Jonathan Webber outlines an argument for the imperative of authenticity found in Beauvoir's book Pyrrhus and Cineas. This argument concludes that we are obliged to respect the objective value of human agency, an obligation that it derives from our own status as human agents.

A film of the Rethinking Existentialism project. Recorded on 20 January 2016. http://bit.ly/RethinkingExistentialism