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Bad faith (existentialism)
Bad faith
(from
French
mauvaise foi
) is a
philosophical
concept used by
existentialist
philosophers
Jean-Paul Sartre
and
Simone de Beauvoir
to describe the phenomenon where a human being under pressure from societal forces adopts false values and disowns their innate freedom hence acting
inauthentically
. It is closely related to the concepts of
self-deception
and
ressentiment
.
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