PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Second Sex, System On A Chip
16 Sep 2016
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Speaking of certain women; each feminine human not necessarily woman. Big ideas: feminism = now practically over. If women are getting close to becoming equals with men, do we even need. Requires constant rede nition, re ection, recreation as the time and place changes as well: conceptualism lost ground. Even these elds of study will show that characteristics are temporal / are reactions to surrounding phenomena: he = absolute, she = other. To man is to be the original, the default, the benchmark of creation. To be woman is to be a deviation of man always de ned in relation to man"s existence: the concept: self v. other. Self/ subject (anything with consciousness/ capacity to change) Other (cannot de ne oneself/determine agency: otherness = funda. categ. of human thought, women do not say we . Linguistically, this indicates the patriarchy"s desire to convince women that uniting would not work simply because they are too different from one another.
