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| Freedom: Freedom is the ability to live one's life without constraints, according to one's own values and beliefs. See also Liberty, Community, State, Governance, Society, Individuals, Democracy._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Simone de Beauvoir on Freedom - Dictionary of Arguments
Brocker I 305 Freedom/Beauvoir: Basically, escaping from freedom is a temptation for everyone. "In addition to the ethical claim of every individual to assert itself as a subject, there is in it the temptation to flee its freedom and to constitute itself as a thing: a sinister path, for passive, alienated, lost, it is at the mercy of foreign will, cut off from its transcendence, robbed of all value. (1) ((s) The context here is gender relations and gender roles. See also Subject-Object Problem/Beauvoir, Gender Roles/Beauvoir, Transcendence/Existentialism, Immanence/Beauvoir). Kuster: This ambivalence, however ((s) according to Beauvoir) is unevenly distributed among the sexes. 1. Simone de Beauvoir, Le deuxième sexe, Paris 1949. Dt.: Simone de Beauvoir, Das andere Geschlecht. Sitte und Sexus der Frau, Reinbek 2005 (zuerst 1951), S. 17. Friederike Kuster, „Simone de Beauvoir, Das andere Geschlecht (1949)“ in: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Beauvoir, Simone de Brocker I Manfred Brocker Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27