PHL 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Jean-Paul Sartre
17 Jul 2016
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Introduction to simone de beauvoir and the ethics of ambiguity. Her work, which ranged from literature to philosophy to memoirs and political texts, engaged with the historical and political events of her time. Considered herself to be more of a philosopher: as a philosopher, she saw her role as limited to explaining the philosophy of sartre. Embodiment and old age: beauvoir was particularly attuned to topics that many philosophers have overlooked. Simone and sartre: met in 1929 at university, she thought of her philosophical works as merely explaining and interpreting sartre. Scholars of beauvoir have shown that she is an original thinker, whose ideas sometimes challenge sartre"s. Initially published in four installments, as a book in 1947. Book is an attempt to give an existentialist ethics. Beauvoir discusses tow central concepts: the ambiguity of human existence, and the meaning of freedom, given this ambiguity.
