id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2j62s468324 James W. Haring God and the Quest for Authenticity in Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant 2020 .txt text/plain 355 12 32 Though personal authenticity is an organizing ideal of late-modern Western societies, it also is a site of some of our most contentious disagreements, lacks coherence in many of its formulations, is not fully understood in all of its implications, and is often unidentified in its function as a marker of social distinction. There is a need for conceptual clarification and deeper historical understanding of the ideal of authenticity. cache/2j62s468324.txt txt/2j62s468324.txt