The project of bad faith must itself be in bad faith

Evidence

The decision to be in bad faith does not dare to speak its name; it believes itself and does not believe itself in bad faith; it believes itself and does not believe itself in good faith. It is this which from the upsurge of bad faith, determines the later attitude and, as it were, the Weltanschauung of bad faith. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 316

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the recursive structure: bad faith is not an endpoint one reaches but the very disposition that must already be operative at the moment one decides to be in bad faith.
• DEEPTHINKING: The recursion — the project of bad faith is itself in bad faith, refusing to name itself — is the crux of Sartre’s account and resists one-sentence summary; it bears re-reading for how pre-reflective consciousness grounds self-deception.
• XREF: connects to: 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; The will’s bad faith does not oppose but expresses the fundamental project; The demand for sincere self-recognition may itself be a form of bad faith. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 307

Broader Connections

• The will’s bad faith does not oppose but expresses the fundamental project #expands (0.85)
• The demand for sincere self-recognition may itself be a form of bad faith. #exemplifies (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 307