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Sebastian Gardner on Sartre on Bad Faith

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The Paradox of Homosexuality

Our pasts in some sense do determine what we are and also don't. That seems like a paradox almost. Well such thinks that it is a paradox and it's a paradox that we live. He expresses this by saying that the human subject of consciousness is non-self-identical. This leads him to accept these various contradictions, he says. These contradictions reflect the true metaphysical structure of the human subject which is precisely this lack of self-coincidence.

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