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So much of my younger writing was written like an existential treatise. It sought to analyse patterns and trends in relation to human behaviour throughout history, focusing in particular on the reoccurrence of popular forms of orthodoxy and the epistemology behind them. In simple terms, it sought to critique the tendency toward the “absolute”, in…
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The theme of self-deceptive thought amounts to little more than the human ability to function in the mode of believing a particular lie whilst simultaneously not believing that lie. In Being and Nothingness Sartre tackles this human complexity – the human ability to be self-deceptive, through what he considers to be the phenomenon of ‘bad…