jean paul sartre
bad faith
"In the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, essentially self-deception or lying to oneself, especially when this takes the form of blaming circumstances for one's fate and not seizing the freedom to realize oneself in action",
contradiction
A direct opposition between things compared; inconsistency, always false, opposute of tautology
Existence precedes essence
Existentialism
"We are condemned to be free"
Sartre
bad faith
Sartre's term for when we deny our freedom and our responsibility for who we are
tautological reasoning
circular-begins by assuming the very thing that is meant to be proven by the argument itself.
since there is no teleology, the world was not created for a reason, and it does not exist for a reason. If there is no reason for any of this, then there are also no absolutes, to abide by: there is no cosmic justice, no fairness, no order, no rules
counter teleology
tautology
formula of assertion that is true in every possible interpretation.
tautology
needless repetition of an idea by using different but equivalent words; a redundancy
Live authentically
sartre
Teleology
the doctrine that there is evidence of purpose or design in the universe, and esp that this provides proof of the existence of a Designer.
absurdity
the search for answers in an answerless world
the existentialist refute the notion that god made the universe, or our world, or us, with any particular purpose in mind
theistic existentialism
