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Havel's stance of refusing the regime's pretenses and acting on what one actually knows, accepting the personal cost; the counter to living a lie.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
If living a lie is what holds the system up, then living in truth is, unsurprisingly, the fundamental threat to it.
Put simply Havel: if the system rests on everyone living a lie, then "living in truth", refusing to pretend, is naturally the greatest threat to it.
Living in truth carries a strong Heideggerian motif: Havel takes over the authentic/inauthentic distinction but turns it into an explicitly moral one.
Put simply Shore hears Heidegger in Havel's "living in truth," refusing the regime's pretenses. Havel takes Heidegger's contrast between living authentically and inauthentically and makes it openly moral.
The parallel polis, an idea Benda voiced most famously, is a second society built by self-organization: institutions of one's own in which people speak and live in truth.
On Shore's reconstruction, Havel insists truth is real, not a language game; one reason is that lies are plainly real, and their reality in some sense proves truth's.
Put simply Shore's reading of Havel: truth is real, not just a game played with words. One reason: lies are plainly real, and that in some sense proves truth is real too.
Havel's truth, like the dissidents', exceeds factual accuracy: it is what rescues a person, grounding the self, liberating, giving life meaning, worth living and dying for.
Put simply Havel's "truth," like that of other dissidents, means more than getting the facts right. It is what saves a person: it anchors the self, sets one free and gives life meaning, worth living and dying for.
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
HavelIf living a lie is what holds the system up, then living in truth is, unsurprisingly, the fundamental threat to it. L23 · 42:59
BendaThe parallel polis, an idea Benda voiced most famously, is a second society built by self-organization: institutions of one's own in which people speak and live in truth. L23 · 44:31
The parallel polis gives living in truth a collective, institutional form.
Throughlines that pass through one of these claims.
Terms that appear in the same claims.