Question

Mike thinks that sitting around contemplating the meaning of existence is a waste of time. He spends his life concentrating on developing his career, building a bigger house for his family, and enjoying himself. Sartre and other existentialists would say that Mike is ________.
A) living in bad faith
B) preventing himself from becoming a functioning person
C) ignoring Mitwelt
D) following core ideas of self-determination theory

Answer 1

Mike is:

A. Living in Bad faith.

Explanation:

The concept of Bad faith is one of the main issues that the existentialists like Sartre describe.

It is something that the people of the world do faced by the societal pressures around them to conform to.

They just accept the societal values as they are and never contemplate about them because it would be more painful to do so and instead just work the way the society tells them to keep working.

This is what the person in Bad faith does.