Bad Faith
As defined by Sartre, "bad faith" is lying to oneself. Specifically, it is failing to acknowledge one's own ability to act and determine one's possibilities, falling back on the determinations of the various historical and current totalisations which have produced one as if they relieved one of one's freedom to do so.
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“Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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