5 Teaser | Beauvoir: Existentialism and Liberation
What's Left of Philosophy
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Embarrassing Confession
i was talking to my first year on undergraduate students. I told them, the first time you go to a party in college, you will encounter the nihilist. They're sitting in the corriders like, oh, wow. You believe in peace. It's meaningless at the end of the day. So i said, please, do not find that person interesting. In fact, if anything, have some pity for them. Like you. And so this is a quote from the first chapter, like ido i. Toward the end of it, she writes, revolt, in so far as it is pure negative movement, remains abstract. It is fulfilled as freedom only by returning
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