PHL 366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Simone De Beauvoir, Robert Brasillach, Adolf Eichmann
12 Jan 2017
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Fourth lecture on simone de beauvoir (december 1st, 2 hours) Beauvoir discusses 6 ideal types personifications of the different ways in which people fail to be fully free. These types are: the sub-person, the serious person, the nihilist, the adventurer, and the passionate person. None of these types are genuinely free, although their failures are different. The subperson and the serious person fail to recognize themselves as free subjectivities, whereas the adventurer and the passionate person fail to recognize the freedom of others. The subperson defers responsibility, making of himself a mere functionary, tool or instrument. The serious person aligns himself with objective values" (whether of religion, state, or another ideology) and sacrifices his subjective choice to the objective authority of these values. We will be focusing on beauvoir"s analysis of the sub-person and the serious person and their failures to be genuinely free.
