Zen Buddhism
Persons practicing Zen claim not to be subject to the “bad faith” in “self-deception”, since they do not explain a motivation for action as a rationalist would; a rationalist must rationalize an irrational desire that is actually rooted in the body and the unconscious as if it were not.
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