The Idea of bad faith really got me thinking. Thinking of bad faith as not having a balance
between one’s facticity, the things about you that are, and transcendence, the
more subjective and future sighted, it’s hard not to be in bad faith at least
one point in your life. I know that I
have definitely been in bad faith quite a few times throughout my life. And I don’t doubt that I will be in bad faith
several more times in the span of my life.
But being in bad faith doesn’t mean that we are doomed to live a life
without meaning. It’s more of an
indication that we need to change the way we view the world and live our lives
in a better way. Being in bad faith, as I
have come to understand it, is an overemphasis of either facticity or
transcendence, in which some form of deliberate self-deception happens. Like in the skit, the student looked at the
world with an emphasis on his transcendence.
Because of his self-deception, he wasn’t able to see that he would not
reach his goals. This makes me think
about how lost we can get in either thinking of what we would like to do in the
future or things we’ve done in the past.
Because if we let ourselves get lost in the possible futures in our
heads, we can miss out on the opportunities to make the future a reality. But if we get lost in the past we miss out on
the present. I think what Sartre was
getting at is that we should strive to live our lives in way that allows us to
enjoy the present as well as hope for the future and not forget our past. I think I have somewhat of an understanding
of was meant by I am what I am not, I am not what I am.
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