Sartre on the Self-Deceiver's Translucent Consciousness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8410235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phyllis Sutton Morris (0000-0002-8367-5817) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 103-119 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1773 • E-ISSN: 2332-0486 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00071773.1992.11006980 |
| OpenAlex | W2064634912 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
Sartre posed a problem for himself in his discussion of bad faith: how is it possible to deceive oneself, given the unity and translucency of consciousness? Many critics of Sartre interpret translucency as transparency; some, such as M.R. Haight, conclude that Sartre's account of consciousness makes self-deception impossible.A reply to those critics takes the form of showing that translucent consciousness has a number of dimensions: (a) non-positional versus positional aspects; (b) prereflective versus reflective levels; (c) temporally synthetic flux; and (d) the first-person perspective versus the third-person perspective. These dimensions enable Sartre to succeed in describing subtle and varied patterns of self-deception, based on such strategies as obscuring, evasion, distraction, misdescription and disavowal. The translucency of consciousness is not a barrier to self-deception.However, there is another problem in Sartre's claim that all purposive activity is conscious, including our practice of self-deception. The bodily subject of consciousness performs important purposive activities beyond the range of the most obscure non-positional consciousness. This calls into question Sartre's existentialist claim that we are wholly responsible for all we do
Consciousness · Deception · Epistemology · Existentialism · Faith · Perspective (graphical) · Psychoanalysis · Self-consciousness · Self-deception · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Psychology · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |