Descriptive
Lying to oneself
On the axis: The value of truth · one's own beliefs
Choosing one's illusions would require believing at will; but can we really believe what we know to be false, or only arrange things so as not to look?
Philosophers' positions
Major
−0.7
Truth that empowers
Justification
Since consciousness is what it is not and is not what it is, the standing temptation is bad faith: telling oneself one is a nature, a role, a thing, so as to flee the anguish of one's freedom. The minimal demand is not to conceal one's freedom from oneself: illusion about oneself turns freedom into fate.
Being and Nothingness, I (1943)
Anchors: Sartre · Pascal
leads to: Ethics of belief