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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’ (Natanson, 1980: 97).
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Rae, G. (2011). Fleeing from Freedom: Sartre and Bad Faith. In: Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230348899_3
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