Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

EXISTENTIALISMISAHUMANISM 1173 things as they are. Moreover, to say that we invent values means nothing else but this: life has ...

1174 Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was the elder of two daughters born to attorney Georges Bertrand de Beauv ...

In 1929, de Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre and studied with him for the agrégationin philosophy (which he had failed the previous ...

1176 SIMONE DEBEAUVOIR groups have been treated as the “Other” and have redefined themselves. Why not women? Later in the book, ...

THESECONDSEX 1177 Introduction(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989); Toril Moi,Feminist Theory & Simone de Beauvoir(Oxford: Bl ...

1178 SIMONE DEBEAUVOIR share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted ...

THESECONDSEX 1179 quite like that of two electrical poles, for man represents both the positive and the neutral, as is indicated ...

1180 SIMONE DEBEAUVOIR Varuna-Mitra, Uranus-Zeus, Sun-Moon, and Day-Night than it was in the contrasts between Good and Evil, lu ...

THESECONDSEX 1181 But proletarians have not always existed, whereas there have always been women. They are women in virtue of th ...

1182 SIMONE DEBEAUVOIR Migrant Mother, 1936, by Dorothea Lange (1895–1965). This powerful photograph of a migrant mother in cent ...

THESECONDSEX 1183 hope and fear, is quite conscious of the need he has for his master. Even if the need is at bottom equally urg ...

1184 SIMONE DEBEAUVOIR free, not enslaved; the second, a man, not a woman. But the males could not enjoy this privilege fully un ...

THESECONDSEX 1185 “the Jewish character.” True, the Jewish problem is on the whole very different from the other two—to the anti ...

1186 SIMONE DEBEAUVOIR inferiority complex, and indeed no one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than t ...

THESECONDSEX 1187 “quarrel”; and when quarreling one no longer reasons well. People have tirelessly sought to prove that woman i ...

1188 SIMONE DEBEAUVOIR benefit of society as one wishes it to be maintained or established. For our part, we hold that the only ...

1189 Willard Van Orman Quine was the youngest of the sons born to Robert Quine and Harriet Van Orman Quine of Akron, Ohio. His m ...

Quine taught at Harvard until 1942. During World War II, his skill in languages and his gift for logic were put to use translati ...

Quine concludes: The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to th ...

TWO DOGMAS OF EMPIRICISM Modern empiricism has been conditioned in large part by two dogmas. One is a belief in some fundamental ...