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What Does Sartre Mean by “Bad Faith”?

Bad faith lies at the heart of the existentialism of Sartre. It appears early in Being and Nothingness...

“Existence precedes essence” was first mentioned in a public lecture that was later published as Existentialism Is a...

For Sartre, freedom and responsibility are linked in such a way that places them in a constant relatedness...

In Being and Nothingness, Sartre attempts to overcome solipsism by proving the existence of other minds through his...

For Sartre, the contingency of being means existing without ever finding the reason for this existence and hence...

For Sartre, there are two modes of being: “Being in-itself” and “Being for-itself”. “Being for-itself” is the mode...

What is existentialism? Perhaps there is no direct answer. That which gathers itself into the term “existentialism” is...

It is always the moment in which the world decides to distance itself from oneself and leaves one...

Transcendence occurs because the “for-itself”, that is, consciousness, is a nothingness. Consciousness, for Sartre, is what it is...

The body is not a tool that the individual might use, but rather the center and origin of...

Sartre defines consciousness as nothingness and nothingness as freedom. It is in this togetherness of consciousness and freedom...

In Being and Nothingness, Sartre refuses any dualistic thinking of the world, and introduces what he calls “being...

The unconscious, for Sartre, means that there is a part of ourselves that is absent, radically foreign, and...