From the beginning to the end of his philosophizing, Sartre appears to have been concerned with "bad faith" - our "natural" disposition to flee from our freedom and to lie to ourselves. Virtually no aspect of his monumental system has generated more attention. Yet bad faith has been plagued by misinterpretation and misunderstanding. At the same time, Sartre's correlative concepts of "good faith" and "authenticity" have suffered neglect or insufficient attention, or been confused and wrongly identified by Sartre scholars, even by Sartre himself. Ronald E. Santoni takes on the challenge of...
From the beginning to the end of his philosophizing, Sartre appears to have been concerned with "bad faith" - our "natural" disposition to flee from o...