Sunday, April 19, 2015

Winston Simone De Beauvoir presentation

A couple of class periods ago Winston (aka DJ Wiz or The Winston-ator) gave a presentation to the class on Simone De Beauvoir. Overall the presentation was very thorough. I thought it was especially impressive that Winston was able to talk about De Beauvoir in such detail in front of the class given that he was put on the spot to give the presentation. He also saved everyone else in the class as we didn't have to take a quiz that day because he presented - yay Winston. 

The immanence and transcendence part of De Beauvoir's philosophy is a little confusing to me. By assigning men the sphere of 'transcendence' does she mean that men are able, or at least have a better chance of overcoming the absurd in life? If she does, wouldn't this conflict with her previous beliefs about how the absurd is something present in all humans that we must learn to accept?

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