PHL 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kensington Books, Simone De Beauvoir
8 Feb 2015
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Freedom is ones right to do or say what they please without any restraints. In ways everyone has their own perspective of what freedom is, or what must be accomplished, or declared in order to be free. Two philosophers that have their owns views of freedom are thomas hobbes, a philosopher from the sixteenth century that is known for his book leviathan, and simone de beauvoir, a philosopher that believed very strongly in feminism. Hobbes believes we are not free due to the restraints and laws that are enforced on us by the government whereas de. Beauvoir states that we are fundamentally free because we have the ability to choose the values we live by. Both shows that freedom is gained by having the ability to choose our actions, and in the end both hobbes and de beauvoir are aiming for a freedom that allows one another to coexist peacefully together.
