Bad faith emerges when one acknowledges facts but refuses their imposed conclusion.

Evidence

A homosexual frequently has an intolerable feeling of guilt, and his whole existence is determined in relation to this feeling. One will readily foresee that he is in bad faith. In fact it frequently happens that this man, while recognizing his homosexual inclination, while avowing each and every particular misdeed which he has committed, refuses with all his strength to consider himself “a paederast.” His case is always “different,” peculiar; there enters into it something of a game, of chance, of bad luck; the mistakes are all in the past; they are explained by a certain conception of the beautiful which women can not satisfy; we should see in them the results of a restless search, rather than the manifestations of a deeply rooted tendency, etc., etc. Here is assuredly a man in bad faith who borders on the comic since, acknowledging all the facts which are imputed to him, he refuses to draw from them the conclusion which they impose. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 307

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concretely demonstrates bad faith: the homosexual accepts all facts but rejects the identity conclusion, exemplifying the refusal to draw an imposed conclusion.
• XREF: Directly sets up Beauvoir’s treatment of freedom and facticity; also connects to the homosexual’s self-understanding as refusing to be fixed as a thing. — connects to: Bad faith decides in advance to settle for uncertain truths — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 317; Bad faith requires the for-itself to both be and not be what it is — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 313; Bad faith exploits belief’s inherent self-undoing to install impossible beliefs — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 319 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Bad faith decides in advance to settle for uncertain truths #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 317
• Bad faith is making excuses from circumstance rather than acknowledging one’s own freedom #exemplifies (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 507
• Bad faith requires the for-itself to both be and not be what it is #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 313
• Bad faith exploits belief’s inherent self-undoing to install impossible beliefs #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 319