Summary Of Jean Paul Sartre On Bad Faith

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In the article “Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith”, by Neel Burton, a British psychiatrist, philosopher, writer, and educator, claims that bad faith is “ the habit that people have of deceiving themselves into thinking that they do not have the freedom to make choices for fear of the potential consequences of making a choice.”. He supports this claim by first giving an example of someone with bad faith. Then, Burton analyses why this person has bad faith. One of the examples was a waiter that does everything that a waiter should do. This waiter would have bad faith because in order to act as a waiter, the waiter must be aware that he or she is not a waiter, but “a conscious human being who is deceiving himself that he is a waiter. Burton’s purpose