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Bad faith ( Latin: mala fides) is a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while acting as if influenced by another. [1] . It is associated with hypocrisy, breach of contract, affectation, and lip service. [2] . It may involve intentional deceit of others, or self-deception .
Bad faith means dishonest or unacceptable behaviour, or doing something with the intention of deceiving someone. Learn how to use this term in different contexts, see examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and find translations in other languages.
In existentialism, bad faith (French: mauvaise foi) is the psychological phenomenon whereby individuals act inauthentically, by yielding to the external pressures of society to adopt false values and disown their innate freedom as sentient human beings.
To live in bad faith is to deceive ourselves about the limits of our own freedom: it is to convince ourselves that we have to be a certain way, or else — when really there are far more possibilities available to us.
Vor 3 Tagen · Bad faith is a term used by Sartre and Beauvoir to describe the inauthenticity of modern life, when one fails to grasp the truth of one's situation. It involves a form of self-deception and avoidance of one's freedom, as in the examples of the waiter and the seduced woman.
1. Jan. 2021 · The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (d. 1980) called it mauvaise foi ['bad faith'], the habit that people have of deceiving themselves into thinking that they do not have the freedom to make...
18. Feb. 2021 · Bad faith in BN is sometimes understood as just an explication of self-deception. In keeping with this interpretation, it is commonly thought that a murderer is in bad faith if he denies responsibility for the act of homicide even before himself.
