Bad Faith and Self-Evasion

Being and Nothingness

This thread follows the analysis of how consciousness hides from its freedom by moving between facticity and transcendence.

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Lie and Self-Deception Lie and Self-Deception from "Being and Nothingness". Lie and Self-Deception The Difference A liar knows the truth and conceals it from another.

Lie and Self-Deception from "Being and Nothingness". Lie and Self-Deception The Difference A liar knows the truth and conceals it from another.

Lie and Self-Deception The Difference A liar knows the truth and conceals it from another. Bad faith is harder because deceiver and deceived belong to one consciousness. Problem The analysis must explain how a transparent consciousness can conceal from itself what it nevertheless knows.

The Absent Pierre The Absent Pierre from "Being and Nothingness". The Absent Pierre A Divided Attitude A person can acknowledge particular acts while refusing the identity others infer from them.

The Absent Pierre from "Being and Nothingness". The Absent Pierre A Divided Attitude A person can acknowledge particular acts while refusing the identity others infer from them.

The Absent Pierre A Divided Attitude A person can acknowledge particular acts while refusing the identity others infer from them. The past is admitted and disowned in the same movement. Stakes Bad faith does not simply erase facts. It exploits the difference between what a person has done and what that person can still become.

The Coquette's Hand The Coquette's Hand from "Being and Nothingness". The Coquette's Hand Delaying a Decision A woman treats an admirer’s desire as refined respect while leaving her hand in his.

The Coquette's Hand from "Being and Nothingness". The Coquette's Hand Delaying a Decision A woman treats an admirer’s desire as refined respect while leaving her hand in his.

The Coquette's Hand Delaying a Decision A woman treats an admirer’s desire as refined respect while leaving her hand in his. She lets the body act while presenting herself as pure intellect. Structure Her evasion depends on holding transcendence and facticity together without reconciling them. The contradiction keeps the choice suspended.

The Café Waiter The Café Waiter from "Being and Nothingness". The Café Waiter Playing a Role A waiter performs his gestures with mechanical precision, as if he were identical with his occupation.

The Café Waiter from "Being and Nothingness". The Café Waiter Playing a Role A waiter performs his gestures with mechanical precision, as if he were identical with his occupation.

The Café Waiter Playing a Role A waiter performs his gestures with mechanical precision, as if he were identical with his occupation. His ceremony makes a social role look like a fixed essence. Refusal of Identity Yet he can only play at being a waiter. Consciousness exceeds every role it inhabits, and that gap exposes the impossibility of pure sincerity.

Belief That Falls Short Belief That Falls Short from "Being and Nothingness". Belief That Falls Short The Faith Problem Bad faith is neither a cynical lie nor a stable conviction.

Belief That Falls Short from "Being and Nothingness". Belief That Falls Short The Faith Problem Bad faith is neither a cynical lie nor a stable conviction.

Belief That Falls Short The Faith Problem Bad faith is neither a cynical lie nor a stable conviction. It relies on a belief that accepts its own incompleteness. Resolution Every belief contains distance from itself. Bad faith uses that instability to flee being while continuing to claim an identity.

Part One, Chapter Two, Section I

Part One, Chapter Two, Section II, early examples

Part One, Chapter Two, Section II, after the discussion of sincerity

Part One, Chapter Two, Section II, near the end

Part One, Chapter Two, Section III