Being And Nothingness: Sartre’s Existential Phenomenology And Theory Of Freedom: Sartre And The Nothingness Of Consciousness

by Belle Vogus

Sartre’s account of bad faith is crucial to his philosophy because it discloses his theory of self-deception, consciousness’s relationship to objectification and objectivity, and what it is to exist authentically and inauthentically. For these reasons, ‘any comprehension of Sartre’s view of consciousness must rest on a thorough grasp of the character and implications of bad faith’.
The recognition of the existence of a primitive form of pre-reflective self-consciousness is an important starting point for an understanding of more elaborate forms of self-consciousness that are concept- and language-dependent.

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Published July 14, 2021