The World in the Self

We are all commanded, by the spirit of our age, to be authentic. But what if the inward turn that authenticity demands has led us away from the world we were supposed to appear in?

In this essay, our co-founder Joseph Terry reads Charles Taylor and Hannah Arendt together to ask what happens to public life when the self becomes the only stage. Arendt's distinction between labor, work, and action turns out to be a sharper tool for the AI moment than most of the discourse about it.

Read the full essay on Substack: scholasophia.substack.com

Published January 26, 2026.