Episode 51, Simone de Beauvoir (Part IV - Further Analysis and Discussion)
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane
4.8 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Simone de Beauvoir was a pioneer for the second-wave feminist movement and one of the most famous philosophers to have lived. Strikingly, Beauvoir did not label herself as a philosopher, since she never attempted to provide an original treatise which aimed to fully encapsulate the truth of the world or the human condition. Instead, she considered herself as a writer, commentator and novelist. Beauvoir's identification should not, however, discredit her as a philosopher. Jean-Paul Sartre's work on existentialism is heavily indebted to Beauvoir's careful eye and scholarly expertise, and her book The Ethics of Ambiguity, is considered by many as one of the most significant texts in moral philosophy and existentialism; the ethical text which Sartre promised, but never produced.
Simone de Beauvoir's most famous text is The Second Sex; a detailed examination on what it means to be a woman through the lens of existentialism. The Second Sex was highly controversial at the time of its publication; receiving backlash from certain areas of male-dominated academia and the press. Nevertheless, it is still considered to be one of the greatest works in feminist philosophy.
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| 0:00.0 | Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan |
| 0:07.1 | Scicast |
| 0:07.9 | Part 4 Further Annalisee and Discochon Part four, further analyses and discussion. |
| 0:25.4 | Everybody's favourite part of the show, we have erected the ethics of ambiguity in the second sex in all their glory. |
| 0:33.0 | We've constructed the theories. |
| 0:34.6 | We've unpacked a lot of the ideas. |
| 0:36.4 | We've really held ourselves back |
| 0:38.1 | with any analysis and tried to make sure that we're just doing justice these theories in as |
| 0:43.5 | much detail as we can. And we always save our analysis. Till the end, as our long time listers know, |
| 0:48.9 | so without hesitation, let's engage in some further analyses. Do you mind if we, just general thoughts, first of all, in terms of the preparation for our discussion or actual discussion in these installments, what are our thoughts? |
| 1:02.2 | We enjoyed it? |
| 1:03.3 | Yeah, fantastic. |
| 1:03.9 | Hopefully we've enjoyed it. |
| 1:05.0 | Yes, Jack, I've enjoyed it. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, I mean, I've been reading the Second Sex for two months, and I haven't really had time to read anything else. |
| 1:12.7 | So I've really, really enjoyed engaging with the feminist philosophy inside it. |
| 1:18.3 | I think it's very, very contemporary. |
| 1:20.3 | I think it has a lot to teach. |
| 1:22.0 | I think that there's a responsibility for all of us, I think, to be a bit more informed about things that are outside of our experience. |
| 1:30.0 | And, you know, we've been making a massive push with the podcast to try and include as many different voices as we can. |
| 1:36.2 | And I think that's a good thing. |
| 1:37.4 | And I think that I feel very inspired to read much more feminist philosophy. |
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