Sophistry or Bad Faith?

Plato vs. Sartre on our Cultural Affliction

The ancients were well aware of our capacity to deceive. They gave us a word that we still use today, pseudos, from which we get pseudo-. Ancient philosophy is obsessed with arguments that are good vs. arguments that are manipulative. Being vs. Seeming is a distinction found not just in Plato, but in ancient tragedies.

But, to my knowledge, the ancients…