Being and Nothingness

of Sartre’s existentialist philosophy. It is a primary element of the ontology of Being and Nothingness. For Sartre, the phenomenon of bad faith is present in most or even all human activities. Simply put, bad faith refers to our attempts to evade the fundamental truth of our nature, in terms of both facts and possibilities. Bad faith is generally characterized as a “refusal to recognize what I am”, namely, a being who is both facticity and transcendence. To understand the phenomenon of bad faith

human existence. Descartes comes immediately to mind when one focuses on Sartre's major categories. In Sartre's case however, it is not mind and matter but consciousness and its opposite: "nothingness" and "being." This irreducible dualism is the key to the

The unconscious mind is not some black hole of unacceptable impulses waiting to rip you apart. It is the source of hidden beliefs, fears, and attitude that interferes with everyday life. According to Psychology Today (unconscious), the unconscious is where most of the work of the mind is done the source of intuition and dreams, the engine of much information processing. The unconscious mind shows the real intentions behind the hypocritical mask. Freud developed a topographical model of the mind,

different to her during the current visit. In "Dance in America" by Lorrie Moore, Eugene’s spirit fly’s freely despite his physical disability and his imminent demise. Existentialism is a philosophy for the twentieth century that revolves around being alive and the rationale of why humans find themselves to

its approach to understanding the world and being. I will show that authenticity, especially from the perspective of Heidegger and Sartre, attempts to come to terms with the conscious self being in the material world and confronting the external pressures, influences and forces that differ from oneself, thus being a influential concept in the existential thinking. Lastly, I will defend this

According to Psychology Today, “The unconscious mind is not some black hole of unacceptable impulses waiting to trip you up. It is the source of hidden beliefs, fears, and attitude that interfere with everyday life ”(“Unconscious”). The Unconsious is the place a large portion of the work of the psyche completes; it 's the store of programmed aptitudes (, for example, riding a bicycle), the wellspring of instinct and dreams, the motor of much data handling. The unconscious mind shows the real intentions

accept that they come from the realm of the être en soi (realm of the being in it self) and make attempts to deny there past. In an attempt to flee their past and the anguish that can accompany it Sartre says some will pursue a fundamental project. This project entails attempting to make ourselves a virtuoso or a God that is constrained by neither the realm of the être en soi nor the realm of the être pour soi (realm of the being for itself). Sartre considers this "forsaking the whole for the sake

existence by society. We do not only create our values, we create ourselves. Simone De Beauvoir, for instance, creates a limit to this existential idea of self-creation, qualifying absolute liberty - an idea that is recurring in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness. In opposition to this, de Beauvoir presents an ambiguous image of human liberty, in which women fight against the apparent inconveniences of the female figure. In The Second Sex, her most famous chef-d’oeuvre, de Beauvoir sketches an existential

Useful Nothingness Thirty spokes share one hub. It is just the space between them that makes a cart function as a cart. Knead clay to make a vessel and you find within it the space that makes a vessel a vessel. Within a house built with doors and windows you will find the space that makes a house function as a house. Hence the substance can provide a condition under which usefulness is found, but nothingness is the usefulness itself. Useful means being of service, or serving some purpose. Without

Well-Lighted Place,” Ernest Hemingway suggests life itself is a realm of nothingness in a world that means absolutely nothing. In the story, three characters have a different insight on the meaning of nothingness. The idea of “nada” is portrayed through the perspectives of the old man, the older waiter, and the younger waiter. Events in the story suggest different depictions of how they interpret the reality of nothingness, such as the old man never wanting to leave the clean, well-lighted café or