PHL 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Simone De Beauvoir, Facticity, Sex Organ
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But it doesn"t decide who i am. You can choose that: immanence not a transcendence but being stuck with this body. I can"t do anything with the fact that i"m 5"5 and a female so i won"t ever be a great nba player. Man is the active rational world changing transcendence (go out and do things) Woman is the support for that, not active and creative (but passive + submissive) Woman is an object for others (our thoughts: they need that part of each other. Woman in love: love as idolatrous, love as in bad faith, love as producing suffering.