Liar - Classification - Bad Faith

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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    Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)