Jean-Paul Sartre: Anguish and Bad Faith

Jean-Paul Sartre 'Being and Nothingness' Part I Chapter II Bad Faith
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[@garywpearson1955]

Wonderful! Thank you.

[@angelmoreno7536]

I'm writing the most confusing and stressful paper in my college career. This has helped me so much, thank you!

[@robsamartino71]

Thank you! Glad to hear it

[@FabioMartins-mk7hd]

After I read a Chapter, I watch your corresponding video just to make sure that I am understanding it well. Thank you a lot, Rob. It's helping me a lot. I graduated in Philosophy 8 years ago and never read Sartre, I chose Heidegger over him at "Metaphysics". I am enjoying it a lot and I feel bad because it is the best "thought" I ever read. I feel ashamed due to the fact that I recognize I had/have no excuse for not having read "Being and Nothingness". In the other hand, I feel happiness for feeling ashamed, in a sense that I'm not completely blind and fleeing in bad-faith. Instead, I face my anguish of being ashamed with a smile, for I prefer feeling that way with conscienceness rather being blindly happy without knowing I'm in bad-faith. THANK YOU ROB, for helping me put my thoughts together. Already subscribed! Pls, continue your work.

[@robsamartino71]

Thank you so much! That is very encouraging to hear and I will keep making content!

[@maxexplore8220]

Nice explanation

[@robsamartino71]

Thank you!

[@dogchaser520]

Thanks for this. Clear. One thing I like about Sartre is how many examples he gives -- makes his work very concrete as opposed to most philosophers.

[@jkumadapharaoh8514]

Lol I think so far this is the most difficult for me to fully grasp. It seems simple yet it doesn’t seem simple. As soon as I think I have it, I realize I don’t

[@robsamartino71]

Yes this entire book is like biting your own teeth. Consciousness is in many ways contradictory because we are both an object in this world and a point of view upon it. It’s been a while since I’ve uploaded anything but I have some videos in mind. I’ll try and discuss some of these issues without getting too wrapped up in the text. Thanks for watching!

[@shaggyrandy1264]

What does he say about religion?

[@robsamartino71]

Shaggy Randy Sartre was an atheist who wanted to incorporate religious concepts into a secular framework. So you could say that he has a lot to say about religion. Sartre’s Being and Nothingness is a phenomenological study, meaning that he is studying appearances (states of mind), as opposed to the objective world independent of human consciousness. The metaphysical question of the existence of god is not important to this particular inquiry. What is important to phenomenology is how religion fits into human experience. For Sartre, the individual was responsible for the meaning of life. Religion provides a way to bypass ones own responsibility to formulate the meaning of life.

[@shaggyrandy1264]

...Or ones family?

[@robsamartino71]

Sartre describes a mode of consciousness as ‘being for others’ which address the various relations between the individual and others. I will eventually get to doing a video about this but I have a long way to go.

[@shaggyrandy1264]

Gos is an excuse?

[@robsamartino71]

Shaggy Randy for Sartre God is a human construction and in some ways a desired state of being for an individual. The philosopher whose writing inspired me to study Sartre is Roger Scruton. I highly recommend his work, Scruton is not an atheist and has a lot of criticisms of Sartre that are all worth reading. That being said, Scruton greatly admires Sartre’s philosophical works which is why his criticisms are so valuable

[@shaggyrandy1264]

Didn't Stephan Molineux say he became "spiritual", (via Jordan Peterson), because humans by nature weren't capable of virtue? Is that the construct Sartre describes? Scruton is good.

[@robsamartino71]

Shaggy Randy I’m not sure if I ever heard what you are referring to but I will say that Stefan sees Sartre as a despicable person. He may have a point here, although I cannot elaborate on who Sartre was as a person since I have yet to really investigate his biography in depth

[@beakopaz689]

I followed this completely until the example of the flirtatious couple