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Existence Before Essence
- Sartre's phrase "existence precedes essence" means there's no given human nature and we make our lives by choices.
- Mary Warnock emphasizes that everything is a matter of choice and we could act otherwise.
Wartime Choice Example
- Sartre used a wartime student's dilemma about staying with his mother or joining the Free French to show genuine, personal choice.
- Warnock praises Sartre for vivid, realistic examples that illuminated philosophical points.
What Bad Faith Is
- Bad faith is pretending to yourself something you'd see is false if you reflected for five minutes.
- Warnock says it involves overacting a role, like the waiter playing conscientiousness.