Bad faith is a permanent risk rooted in consciousness’s double nature.

Evidence

If bad-faith is possible, it is because it is an immediate, permanent threat to every project of the human being; it is because consciousness conceals in its being a permanent risk of bad-faith. Th e origin of this risk is the fact that the nature of consciousness simultaneously is to be what it is not and not to be what it is. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 411

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fixes the mechanism of bad faith: it stems from consciousness being what it is not and not being what it is.
• XREF: connects to: Bad faith and good faith are both flights conditioned by consciousness’s inner self-disintegration — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 320; Consciousness’s translucency makes bad faith a metastable, evanescent structure — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 281; Bad faith collapses the deceiver and deceived into one consciousness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 280 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Bad faith collapses the deceiver and deceived into one consciousness #expands (0.95) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 280
• Bad faith works by forming concepts that fuse facticity and transcendence without synthesizing them #expands (0.95) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 292
• Consciousness’s translucency makes bad faith a metastable, evanescent structure #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 281
• Bad faith is the contradiction of asserting both freedom and its absence at once #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 77
• Bad faith involves performing a fixed role to deny one’s underlying freedom #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 505