Existentialism Of Women In Bad Faith By Sartre

Existentialism

According to Webster dictionary, existentialism is, “A chiefly 20th century philosophical movement embracing diverse doctrines but centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad.” It deals with choice and the ambiguity of the circumstances man must deal when making a choice. It is focused upon the study of existence and of the means humans find themselves surviving in the world. The notion is that humans exist first and then each person spends a lifespan altering their essence or nature. Existentialism is said to be a reaction against

This term was first used by Sartre to describe the phenomenon where a human being, under force from societal forces embraces false values and disowns their innate freedom hence acting unauthentic ally.

De Beauvoir, another French existentialist philosopher, also made her comments on bad faith. In her point of view, three types of women are in bad faith. One, the Narcissist, who refutes her freedom by seeing herself as an anticipated object. Second, the Mystic, who invests her liberty in an absolute. Third, the Woman in Love, who immerses her identity in that of her male object.

Many people and philosophers in the world totally reject the ideas and thoughts of existentialism. Many argue that existence does not proceed to essence but it is the essence which precedes existence. People’s behaviors are determined by the environmental and genetic characteristics. Commonly shared genetic and environmental features across the species are classically labelled as “human nature”. Albert Camus criticized existentialism as,”The whole effort of Germanic thought has been to substitute for the notion of human nature that of the human situation and therefore [to substitute] history for God and modern tragedy for the former equilibrium. Modern existentialism pushes this effort even further and introduces into the idea of situation the same uncertainty as in that of nature. All that is left is a movement. But like the Greeks, I believe in

As atheist think that there is no concept of God and that man has been created itself and the world is on its own and there is no supreme being which is controlling it. The criticism here would be that from approximately 7 billion people in this world, around 5 billion people believe in either one or more than one God. How can this be possible that all those 5 billion people believe something which is totally absurd and has no reality in it? Theists believe that to run this ginormous universe, an omniscient is needed. While the existentialist also reject the concept of