He used aman at a cafÃ© in the role of waiter as an example of limiting self-deception, or "bad faith".
This man told of a boy who asked him whether to take care of his mother or to avenge his deadbrother to show that people only seek the advice they want to hear. This thinker noted that mostobjects are made to suit a predetermined purpose, like a paper-knife. He believed that authenticpeople respect both their "facticity" and their "transcendence." He stated that the Self is partlydefined by the (*) "gaze of the Other," and contrasted "being-in-itself" with "being-for-itself." He used aman at a cafÃ© in the role of waiter as an example of limiting self-deception, or "bad faith". For 10 points,name this French atheist who used the maxim "existence precedes essence" in his lecture Existentialism isa Humanism and wrote Being and Nothingness, the lover of Simone de Beauvoir.
This man told of a boy who asked him whether to take care of his mother or to avenge his deadbrother to show that people only seek the advice they want to hear.
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre