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Our faith

Our inquiry question

What is bad faith, faith, faith?

So in chapter 2, I'll make a correction from part 2, it's actually chapter 2 in being and nothingness when John Paul Sartre talks about the idea of bad faith.

So what's this idea of bad faith?

Bad faith in a nutshell is a way in which you lie to yourself, but it's a little bit deeper

than just a bit of self-deception because it can run throughout your entire life, and you

may not even realize necessarily that you are doing it.

Olli, how could you be living in bad faith?

Okay, so before that, I just want to clarify the difference between bad faith and faith.

So obviously, if you're sort of like religious education, obviously faith means something very specific. Jack, what we kind of, if I was used the word faith generally, what do you kind of think I would be talking about? It's kind of, it links quite nice to that Kirkguard stuff, doesn't it? in something unknown, so you put all your trust into the idea is true, even though it isn't quite there. Yeah, so faith is normally, in your general day-to-day conversations, faith is normally, or if someone has faith, you say they normally believe in something without any kind of evidence for it, generally. So some people would say that belief in God is a faith belief, belief in the afterlife is a faith belief. Some people may argue you can prove these things, but generally most people would agree that it's a belief in faith, that even though there's no evidence for it, that they believe it anyway. So we're going to try and not get confused between that and bad faith, because bad faith isn't really anything to do with the faith of like a Christian or a Muslim or a Jew. We're looking more at kind of what Sartre talked about bad faith. And I completely forgot your question, Andy, so can you ask it again, please? The question being is that, so I said it could be a type of self-deception. What does Sartre mean by the self-deception? How could you be living in bad faith? So kind of the idea that there are rules and laws that kind of restrict your freedom, kind of thinking that there are these rules when in fact there aren't. So, I mean, any kind of rule or law that restricts you, so we could think of anything, really. So living in bad faith would be being dishonest, I would say. So, I don't know. It's not living authentically, is it? It's not staying true to the fact that you are radically free. So again, we'll use the example. If you're in school doing A-levels, you think I must be doing in school, doing A-levels. And so I'm like, no, you're radically free. There's an infinite number of possibilities for you there. And money and the fact that your parents want you to do this,

they're not legitimate reason. That's not, you think you're a student, and that's your idea of yourself. That's the kind of objective reality you've given yourself. But you're more than that. You're playing the role of a student in a sense, and you're living in bad faith if you haven't thought about it, and you're not doing it out of pure freedom.

Yeah, going back to the quote, we were using it on the last part.

If you're living in bad faith, what you are essentially doing is you are objectifying yourself. You are limiting your options, and you're saying that this is just the way things are and that

you could be living that way for most of your life. As Sartre would argue that a lot of people

feel an anxiety towards the amount of choice that we have and that we then decide to find

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