Tuesday 13 April 2010

Sartre’s argument on bad faith is debatable there are any problems with it. One of which was mentioned by Anju about morality. Although Sartre stresses that were are free beings and we have freedom of our consciousness is he then arguing that moral problems such as paedophilia and rape mentioned by Anju are acceptable? Are these incidents according to Sartre a case of freedom and an individual wanting to act in such an immoral manner acceptable? So would Sartre argue that paedophiles and rapists are in bad faith if they do not commit such acts which they desire to? One can argue no in the sense that Sartre also stresses that of course we are responsible for our bad faith but we are also responsible for our freedom so it is up to the individual to make certain choices such as to act in an immoral way or not.

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