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bad faith

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bad faith

In the existentialist philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, a type of moral self-deception, involving our behaving as a mere thing rather than choosing authentically. In bad faith, we evade responsibility and anxiety by not noticing possibilities of choice, or by behaving in a role others expect of us.

Sartre derives the concept from his metaphysical analysis of being. Humans must strive to escape mere being-in-itself and to achieve their true being, being-for-itself.


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You accused us, perhaps, of inconstancy of bad faith.
The three other Kings, who were not paid for guarding the Passes, tell them by runner of the bad faith of Bunar and Hilas.
 
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