What must be lost: on retrospection, authenticity, and some neglected costs of transformation

Abstract A sensibility is, on a rough first pass, an emotional orientation to the world. It shapes how things appear us, evaluatively speaking. By transfiguring things’ evaluative appearances, change in can profoundly alter one’s overall experience of I argue that some forms entail (1) risking knowledge what experiences imbued with prior were like, and (2) surrendering grasp intelligibility apprehensions. These costs have consequences for Laurie Paul’s ‘problem transformative experience.’ Paul has argued when we are poised become someone new, our inexperience generates problems authentic choice about own futures. reckoning epistemic losses involved change, show this problem must not be confined novel transformations. Prior does guarantee or understanding necessary choosing authentically (in sense). If highlights is indeed at all, then, it still more pervasive intractable one than been taken be.