Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONXII) 761 let the terms be ever so exactly defined, without a train of reasoning and ...

EXISTENTIALISMISAHUMANISM 1171 never say that it is arbitrary; we understand quite well that he was making himself what he is at ...

762 Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712 in the independent city-state of Geneva. His mother, Suzanne Bernard, was a member of ...

1172 JEAN-PAU LSARTRE entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. Of course, freedom as t ...

INTRODUCTION 763 that liberate the individual. Moreover, the arts and sciences neither rise from nor lead to morality. As Rousse ...

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

764 JEAN-JACQUESROUSSEAU of anarchy. The “fundamental problem” as Rousseau sees it, is to find an associa- tion that both defend ...

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

THESOCIALCONTRACT 765 Lemos,Rousseau’s Political Philosophy: An Exposition and Interpretation (Athens, GA: University of Georgia ...

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

766 JEAN-JACQUESROUSSEAU The first societies.The earliest of all societies, and the only natural one, is the family; yet childr ...

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

THESOCIALCONTRACT 767 king of the human race? Be that as it may, it cannot be denied that Adam was sovereign of the world, as Ro ...

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

768 JEAN-JACQUESROUSSEAU Even if each person could alienate himself, he could not alienate his children; they are born free men; ...

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

THESOCIALCONTRACT 769 short, each State can have as enemies only other States and not individual men, inasmuch as it is impossib ...

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

770 JEAN-JACQUESROUSSEAU private interest. If he dies, his empire after him is left disconnected and disunited, as an oak dissol ...

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