This essay defends a modified version of Nahum Browns “dialetheist” interpretation of bad faith. On this interpretation, bad faith, as a form of self‐deception, constitutes a dialetheia or true contradiction. While in agreement with the dialetheist interpretation, I argue that bad faith is just as much a flight from true contradiction and towards what I call “sham consistency.” I also put forward a multi‐step model of bad faith as cyclical, recursive and reflexive. And I respond to the objection that bad faith involves a truth value gap rather than a glut. I finally employ the dialetheist interpretation to explain Sartres contention that bad faith has its origins in the most primitive layer of human experience: the pre‐reflective cogito.

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不诚实是真正的矛盾：论萨特的辩证论解释


本文捍卫了内厄姆·布朗（Nahum Brown）对恶意的“辩证论者”解释的修改版本。根据这种解释，恶意作为一种自欺欺人的形式，构成了辩证法或真正的矛盾。虽然我同意辩证论的解释，但我认为恶意同样是对真正矛盾的逃避，也是对我所说的“虚假一致性”的逃避。我还提出了一个循环、递归和自反的恶意多步骤模型。我回应了这样的反对意见，即恶意涉及真理价值差距而不是过剩。最后，我用辩证论的解释来解释萨特的论点，即恶意起源于人类经验最原始的层面：前反思的我思。