Submitted By: Matthew Bushbaum<\/p>\n
To ask ourselves, what does it mean to be authentically orange is to ask first, what it means to be authentic, then, what it means to \u201cbe orange,\u201d and in the case of this situation I\u2019m going to assume it means to \u201cbe orange\u201d in respect to our interaction with the Oregon State University. When addressing what it means to be orange it is first derived to be referring to us being Oregon State University students and as such, we need to address what needs to be overcome to consider ourselves \u201corange\u201d in the eyes of ourselves, peers and the university.<\/p>\n
To first determine authenticity it needs to be known that the person in consideration doesn\u2019t deny their facticity or their transcendence. Their transcendence is one\u2019s existence beyond physiological state, (Lec, 5\/26\/15) and one\u2019s facticity is the existence within their physical state (Lec, 5\/26\/15). Therefore a student to determine him or herself to be \u201corange\u201d is to determine themselves to factually go to the institution be actively involved and typically blend in with the herd that is \u201cbeing orange.\u201d They must do this without denying their authenticity, meaning they must truly want to be a beaver not just attend class there.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s assume a person is attending OSU yet they aren\u2019t involved within the society that is to be a beaver such as attending sporting events, classes, extracurricular and the campus that is OSU. For example, they are an online student that doesn\u2019t attend regular activities ever. For them to consider themselves to \u201cbe orange\u201d would be in bad faith. This form of Bad faith is \u201cambiguous because they are being in situation\u201d when they lie to his or herself about their authenticity (Lec, 5\/26\/15). We also need to consider the grey area between being active in OSU life and being inactive. Where is the line drawn? And there really isn\u2019t a line in the eyes of our peers and the institution; however, there could be a line drawn in the imaginations of ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche inquires about the \u201cherd instinct\u201d in The Gay Science <\/em>saying, whenever a person is in situation they assess themselves, and \u201cThese assessments and rankings always express the needs of a community and herd\u201d meaning those in the \u2019herd\u2019 consider themselves \u201corange\u201d only if they feel it necessary to consider themselves \u201corange.\u201d<\/p>\n For one to declare being \u201corange,\u201d one must see a benefit or gain from declaring, by not declaring themselves orange they can deny there authenticity if they are in fact orange. For the average person, to become orange and break into the community that is Oregon State all they have to do is claim being orange or to not claim being orange.\u00a0 Everybody has this freedom and are condemned to make the personal observation of whether or not they are orange in nature (Lec, 5\/14\/15).<\/p>\n So in the eyes of your peers and the institution it is ambiguous whether or not you are \u201cbeing orange;\u201d however to be orange in your own eyes you must be authentic to yourself and be aware if you\u2019re in situation or out of situation and if your denying your transcendence or facticity. Therefore, I consider determining whether or not you\u2019re orange or not to be a personal quest of finding your authentic self then determining if that self is \u201corange\u201d or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Submitted By: Matthew Bushbaum To ask ourselves, what does it mean to be authentically orange is to ask first, what it means to be authentic, then, what it means to \u201cbe orange,\u201d and in the case of this situation I\u2019m going to assume it means to \u201cbe orange\u201d in respect to our interaction with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164078,726714,726522],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-be-orange","tag-oregonstateuniv","tag-philsophy-150"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/authenticorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/authenticorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/authenticorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/authenticorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/authenticorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/authenticorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/authenticorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/authenticorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/authenticorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/authenticorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}