If one is living in a such a way as to satisfy other people’s expectations, and one is entrusting one’s own life to others,
that is a way of living in which one is lying to oneself and continuing that lying to include the people around one.
YOUTH: So one should be egocentric and live however one pleases?
PHILOSOPHER: Separating one’s tasks is not an egocentric thing.
Intervening in other people’s tasks is essentially an egocentric way of thinking, however.
Parents force their children to study; they meddle in their life and marriage choices.
That is nothing other than an egocentric way of thinking.
YOUTH: So the child can just ignore his parents’ intentions and live however he pleases?
PHILOSOPHER: There is no reason of any sort that one should not live one’s life as one pleases.
YOUTH: Ha-ha! Not only are you a nihilist, you’re an anarchist and a hedonist to boot.
I’m past being astonished, and now I’m going to start laughing any moment.
PHILOSOPHER: An adult, who has chosen an unfree way to live,
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