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Bad Faith Denies Radical Freedom
- Bad faith is when people deny their radical freedom and treat themselves as inert objects with determinate essences.
- Sartre links bad faith to self-deception and a metaphysical mistake about our freedom and identity.
The Cafe Waiter Who Acts Mechanical
- Sartre's famous cafe-waiter example shows a man who over-identifies with his role and acts like a mechanical object.
- The waiter experiences illicit satisfaction by representing himself as fully determined by waiterhood norms.
Hand-as-Object To Postpone A Choice
- Sartre's flirting vignette shows a woman who treats her hand as an object to postpone a sexual choice.
- She withdraws selfhood from that body part to avoid confronting whether to consent or refuse.