ABSTRACT
Existential philosophers paint a picture of human life that involves a significant level of irrationality. Most will agree that we have a tendency to hide unpleasant truths from ourselves: from ordinary forms of self-deception to the angst-motivated denial of freedom that Sartre has in mind with his concept of bad faith. How we are able to do this is a difficult philosophical question. Sartre’s reflections on the two notions of being and the unstable character of belief are important and influential contributions to this question.
