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Nothingness reflects a relation with being (Sartre 309-328). As such, the human mind holds the only responsibility of drawing a conclusion of nothingness due to lack of it relative to being.
The attendant responsibility of the human mind lies in the ability to discern and differentiate on the aspects of existence and lack of existence. The ability to identify being correct proves a crucial step towards the identification of nothingness, due to the relation between the two. Therefore, the radical freedom at the disposals of the human mind enhances the undertaking of the responsibility of identification, analysis and differentiating between being and nothingness.
The rise of bad faith arises in the acceptance of nothingness at the expense of being. Sartre defines self-deception as a situation where the mind, by its freedom, chooses to deliver a situation of not being in place of being itself (Sartre, 328-348). it, therefore, allows the thriving of self-deception, whereby that which should undergo negation suppresses the being, thereby defeating truth and its existence. Bad faith and self-deception occur as the same thing, all purposed to defeat the truth that gets a reflection of being, therefore, consciousness.
Taking an example of lying to explain the rise of bad faith and self-deception, the situation gets clearer. The person telling a lie undergoes...
The lie presents a negation of truth; therefore, the consciousness returns a situation that does not reflect the truth. In saying the lie to another person, the person saying the lie acts in bad faith, in that the truth remains negated.
The relation to the Other, Sartre writes, arises from the basic conception of the mind. The state of being underlines the existence of the other because it involves the comparison of the two (Sartre, 348-368). The consciousness of the mind hinges decisions to do with the other on the fulcrum of existence and non-existence. The behavioral characterization of one person arises from the lack of the same characteristics on the other person.
As such, the difference in behavior arises through being in one person and nothingness on the other (Sartre, 328-348). Taking an example of an introvert and extrovert, the difference arises in the way of relation to others. In the case of the introvert, the attribute gains prominence in consideration that the extrovert relates to others in a different manner. This represents a negation of the attributes of the introvert in the other person, the introvert.
Works cited
Jean Paul Sartre. Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology. New York:
Routledge. 1969. Print
Works cited
Jean Paul Sartre. Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology. New York:
Routledge. 1969. Print
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