ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author develops the second half of his moderately heteronomous view, namely social self-evaluation. For that purpose, he constructs a community view of personal identity — culminating in an elucidation of the self's authenticity — by using some key ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein as they can be found in his later writings. The author tries to show that Wittgenstein's general picture as outlined by the community view of the Investigations is only at variance with a narcissistic and corrupt conception of personal autonomy. This conception has to be considered as a deviant form of the more moral and ideal conception of personal autonomy as authenticity. The Wittgensteinian outlook on personal autonomy which the author tentatively constructed in the chapter leads up to the overall definition of authenticity in terms of Taylor's chiefly communitarian approach.
