Somos condenados a ser livres: será que negamos essa liberdade?

Abstract

This paper analyzes the question of human freedom and the denial of that freedom through the concept of bad faith, as addressed by Jean-Paul Sartre in his work "Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology". The analysis is based on Edmund Husserl's phenomenological perspective, which seeks to understand how phenomena appear to human beings. Consciousness is highlighted as fundamental to human reality, and freedom is presented as the ability to choose one's own existence and give meaning to the world. The work explores the concepts of Being-in-Self and Being-for-Self, which are fundamental to understanding human freedom in the world. Consciousness is described as a constant mangle of experiences, situated in the face of the past and the future, which generates anguish and freedom. Bad faith is presented as a form of voluntary and self-destructive self-deception, in which people deny their freedom and responsibility, seeking to escape the existential anguish resulting from freedom. The paper concludes that bad faith interferes with the fullness of the process of freedom, introducing an "imperfection". The hypothesis raised to justify the research, based on the idea that conscience seeks to escape existential anguish through the practice of bad faith, is considered successful. The analysis of the concept of bad faith and its relationship with human freedom is at the heart of the work, providing a deeper understanding of the denial of freedom.