[PHIL 242] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 28 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
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Readings are showing you new ways of thinking. de beauvoir: introduction to the second sex. Existentialism: devalues idea of fixed essence in favour of existence. The capacity for humans to change is more important than how you are to begin with; human consciousness" ability to change is paramount to its nature. Subject: anything that has consciousness vs. an object, which the subject constructs. I, the subject, have a relation towards an object where i construct it; ex. A house plant; i find it pretty and pot it and put it in my house. The plant does not construct me as its caretaker; not reciprocal. Subject-object relationship is reciprocal between two people; other = object. Feminism is now nearly over? formal equality will be reached soon; got vote/rights. Option 1: erase differences and say we are all human beings. Problematic because men and women are easily divisible and have different experiences of the world; erase differences in bad faith.
