On Lying: A look at truth and deceit through the lens of Sartre and Camus
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Sartre, Camus, lying, bad faith, deception, meaning Don’t lies eventually lead to the truth? And don’t all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion?…So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am?Abstract
This paper seeks to explore lying, both in and out of the therapy room. It engages predominantly with the philosophies of Sartre and Camus, particularly their writings on deception and self-deception, to examine phenomenologically what it might mean existentially both to lie to ourselves and to others.
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2026-01-01
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