Sincerity aims at an ideal mode of being human nature prevents attaining

Evidence

What is its goal? To bring me to confess to myself what I am in order that I may finally coincide with my being; in a word, to cause myself to be, in the mode of the in-itself, what I am in the mode of “not being what I am.” Its assumption is that fundamentally I am already, in the mode of the in-itself, what I have to be. … In fact in order for me to have an intention of sincerity, I must at the outset simultaneously be and not be what I am. Sincerity does not assign to me a mode of being or a particular quality, but in relation to that quality it aims at making me pass from one mode of being to another mode of being. This second mode of being, the ideal of sincerity, I am prevented by nature from attaining … But if bad faith is possible by virtue of a simple project, it is because so far as my being is concerned, there is no difference between being and non-being if I am cut off from my project. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 312

Categorization

• DEFINE: The game of mirror passages between being-what-one-is and not-being-what-one-is is the core formal mechanism linking sincerity to bad faith.
• XREF: connects to: Sincerity is impossible because consciousness’s structure prevents being what one is — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 305; Sincerity is an unrealizable ideal because human reality never coincides with identity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 296; Sincerity shares the same structure as bad faith and can collapse into it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 311 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Sincerity can be an active ingredient of self-deception rather than its opposite #responds-to (0.90) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1405
• Authenticity is the radical self-recovery that escapes the good-bad faith dichotomy #contradicts (0.85)
• Any attempt at sincere self-knowledge covertly turns oneself into a thing #complicates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 306
• Sincerity rhetoric presupposed a sovereign secular self, not a religious product #expands (0.75)