Saturday 20 March 2010

Sincerity is empty

Raj I understood your point concerning the woman not being in bad faith as she is not making any hasty decisions on how she wishes to act simply because she is not sure of the situation and man she is with. I personally agree with your statement and do not think she is in bad faith at all as this is part of human nature. But one thing I would like to point out is Sartre’s statement on being sincere, Raj you mentioned in your discussion that if the woman forces herself to act upon the man’s advances in the way he expects her to this can be classed as her being in bad faith as she is not being genuine towards herself. (Which I personally agree with).As this statement of being genuine towards oneself is linked to being sincere towards oneself as well. But Sartre stresses on the notion of there being no such thing as being sincere, true or genuine to oneself as this is flawed because the moment you do make this claim of ‘being genuine, true or sincere to yourself’ you are establishing that you are a single static self and denying the transcendent of yourself, and implies some sort of declaration of self which Sartre completely dismisses.

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