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Eudaemonia: The Terrain for Personal Truth
Personal truth is not narcissistic imposition of personal beliefs on others. It is rather the grounding of self-in-the-world guided by principles of eudaemonia: cultivating pleasure with purpose (noble intention), meaning (existential significance), and service (virtuous action). Conversely, narcissistic truth is self-serving, intolerant, and void of moral compass.
Unfortunately, academia is mostly teaching social constructivism, relativism, and politicizing the social and natural sciences. This corruption of reason and logic is policed and perpetuated by political correctness: modern day Inquisition. Although no longer burned at the stake, dissenters are ostracized, marginalized, and economically punished by the group-think crowd who claim monopoly of truth and morality.
To find your personal truth, rather than politically correct pontification, identify what you experience in life within the realm of eudaemonia and exclude the cultural truths that were imposed on you to view a world created to eradicate universal principles of selfhood. The navigational path requires a moral compass to determine when you must rebel from the tyranny of political correctness. Only then can we return to a theater of ideas that can be dialogued with reason rather than with the hysterical rage of intolerance.
