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Sebastian Gardner on Sartre on Bad Faith

Philosophy Bites

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The Relationship Between Bad Faith and Self-Deception

There's another famous example again in a cafe with a man talking to a younger woman, apparently trying to seduce her. What does that one show? Well, this isn't quite the same kind of case as the waiter case. And what Sartre says about it is that at that moment she identifies herself as not being her body. She turns her hand into a mere thing and thereby postpones the decision which at some level she knows she has to make. The ultimate question in this is whether or not we can say that the individual is a homosexual in the same sense once again as we might say that the table is brown.

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