Kester Brewin

Nic and I have been having some good exchanges recently around issues of our relationship with technology. It’s something that’s prominent in the forthcoming book, but I wanted to introduce a few of the ideas here and hopefully provoke some debate to sharpen my own thoughts. My view is that while we do create tools, [...]

[ Bad Faith 1 ] [ Bad Faith 2 ] [ Bad Faith 3 ] I ended the previous post with the question of what we might mean by our decisions to denominate ourselves as ‘Christian’ or otherwise. Before I can answer that though, I think it is worth noting just how infatuated we are [...]

In the previous post I began to explore some of Satre’s thoughts about ‘bad faith’, and we saw that in the case of the waiter, his role as a waiter appeared to be putting an obligation on him: he feels he ought to be acting like a waiter ought to act. He is thus denying [...]

Since listening to a short podcast on the subject I’ve been very interested in Satre’s idea of ‘Bad Faith’, and I want to explore some thoughts springing from it in a short series of posts. As an existentialist, one of the central tenets of Satre’s thought was complete freedom. Everyone is free – but some [...]