according to jean paul sartre in his book no exit...what is transcendant bad faith?

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according to jean paul sartre in his book no exit...what is transcendant bad faith?

Answer 1

I could be wrong about this, but I don't think that Sartre used the expression 'transcendent bad faith'. But I can say this:

Sartre believed that human existence is radically free. We are "condemned to be free." Bad faith is acting in such a way as to avoid acknowledging this fundamental freedom, or finding ways to avoid taking responsibility for it.

The term 'transcendent' in this sort of context stems from the Kantian notion of looking at the grounds of experience. The grounds of experience cannot be experienced – they transcend experience. Edmund Husserl (the founder of phenomenology who was Heidegger's teacher, and Sartre was a student of Heidegger) used the notion of a "transcendental ego" as the basis for conscious experience. In other words, the source of consciousness is beyond consciousness. Sartre rejected this notion of a transcendental ego. In this light, I doubt that Sartre would embrace a notion of 'transcendent bad faith'.

Answer 2

John Paul Jones