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