Inner-Directedness

I'm reading The Closing of the American Mind.

I like it quite a lot.

Allan Bloom wanted to preserve the idea of the philosophical life. He believed that value relativism was threatening the American democratic spirit.

I was just reading a chapter about Nietzsche and the rise of value relativism.

Something about how inner-directedness seems impossible to us.

I think it is possible.

Moreover, I think it is singular.

Inner-directedness does not produce alternatives. Inner-directedness produces definite direction.

Definite, particular, direction.

To act authentically is to act in the only way that we can.

To act authentically is to act necessarily.

Inner direction does not know of alternatives.