Marcus Aurelius’ son was a murderous psychopath. Is Stoicism to Blame?
Commodus was the son of Roman Emperor and stoic philosopher king Marcus Aurelius, and led Rome as an anti-stoic. Where did his anti-stoic lifestyle come from?
Sartre: Bad Faith and its Incompatibility with Human Freedom
Sartre’s seminal text Being & Nothingness presents human beings as perpetually in a state of self-delusion and consciousness of said bad faith. How is human freedom possible when we are arguably always in bad faith?