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Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith

Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness is sometimes described as the bible of existentialism. At its core is the notion of Bad Faith. For this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Sebastian Gardner, author of a recent book about Being and Nothingness, explains what Sartre meant by Bad Faith.

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Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

What is faith? Are human beings capable of it? What part does reason play in life? These and more questions are raised by Søren Kierkegaard's book Fear and Trembling. Clare Carlisle illuminates many of the themes of the book in this interview for Philosophy Bites.

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Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism

What is existentialism? Are we free to choose what we become or are we bound by human nature, by our history, by conventions? Nigel Warburton interviews Mary Warnock on the topic of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism in this latest episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

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