Sartre on coffee

What do you think Sartre would say about the western dependance on coffee?

 

I drink, therefore I am...alert

 

I'm writing on how coffee addiction is an act of bad faith and just looking for some input from others

 

oh my bad, I confused sarte with Descartes

 

He'd probably feel nauseous that people have a strong association with an inanimate object.

It is impossible to say what he would have thought, and I'm sure he would have different opinions depending on how he was thinking at the time.

 

Sartre took opiates so he could stay up long hours and write. I think coffee would have been the least of his concerns; he probably drank six pots a day.

 

"I just swallowed me a grande latte enema."

 

100 Fight Club Haikus.

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If OP is still around, I'm curious how addiction to coffee would fall under bad faith.

 

It would seem to me that because people are inconsistent - every time a coffee addict reaches for a cup of coffee they are making a choice. If they make that choice based upon "I would like a cup of coffee" then it is of their free will and choosing. If they say to themselves "I NEED (but not necessarily want) a cup of coffee" then they are removing themselves from their personal choice and acting in Bad Faith.

 

Good interpretation. I suppose addiction in general can be viewed through that lens.

 

I saw sarte on a bathroom wall once, said something like

To do is to be - Sarte

To be is to do - Kant

Do be do be doo - Cosby

 

lol

 

Church-of-jeebus-christ-of-latterday-nutjobs?

 

It took it as referring to the general idea of bad faith, not bad religious faith. I can see how addiction could be viewed as bad faith, or at least having an element thereof, but I wonder why the OP focused especially on coffee...

 

Bad faith is the belief that that the negative is Bad because it is in the mind inescapable from logical thinking. What we put in the body in general is uncertainty of the momentary Senses. :mickey: