Belief in good faith is a chosen, self-maintained decision rather than an intuition

Evidence

I believe that my friend Pierre feels friendship for me. I believe it in good faith. I believe it but I do not have for it any self-evident intuition, for the nature of the object does not lend itself to intuition. I believe it; that is, I allow myself to give in to all impulses to trust it; I decide to believe in it, and to maintain myself in this decision; I conduct myself, finally, as if I were certain of it—and all this in the synthetic unity of one and the same attitude. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 318

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines good faith as simply belief — the ‘immediate’ — before Sartre proceeds to show how it collapses into bad faith.
• XREF: Direct backdrop to Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguity; also echoes the anti-foundation of belief found throughout continental thought. — connects to: Maintaining core moral beliefs requires faith, not causal explanation — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 896; Faith offers an understanding of life that contrasts with rational knowledge. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 118; Choice is the moment spirit passes into nature and morality is realized (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Maintaining core moral beliefs requires faith, not causal explanation #complicates (0.75) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 896
• Faith offers an understanding of life that contrasts with rational knowledge. #expands (0.75) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 118
• Scholastic theology assumed faith could be proven rationally to infidels #complicates (0.72)
• Choice is the moment spirit passes into nature and morality is realized #expands (0.70)