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With Faust, we mean someone who consciously, and usually irrevocably, betrays his (and later, her) sense of what is right in order to gain some desired advantage, and who thereby loses what is most precious and valuable about human life. The 'Faustian bargain' necessarily involves two characters: the tempted, to be sure, but also the tempter. (p. 1)