liberté
In Beauvoir, the burdensome human capacity to go beyond one's situation and create values; the highest value, always exercised within a given situation.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
Man, for Kojève, is not a being but a nothingness, and that gap is exactly what leaves room for freedom: for acting, having a history, being an individual.
Put simply Kojève: a human being is not a fixed thing but a kind of "nothingness", and that gap is exactly what makes room for freedom: for acting, having a history, being an individual.
Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity builds existentialist ethics around resisting bad faith, mauvaise foi: the pull toward escaping one's own freedom and the load of being a subject.
Put simply Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity builds an existentialist ethics around resisting "bad faith": the pull to escape our own freedom and the burden of being a self who must choose.
For Beauvoir, creation starts from lack: a person is first of all a negativity, and only that absence opens room to make something positive, oneself included.
Put simply Beauvoir: creating starts from lack. A person begins as an absence, a "negativity", and only that emptiness leaves room to make something positive, oneself included.
For Beauvoir, values come from nowhere but human existence: there is no higher authority handing them down, so making them is our job alone.
Transcendence, a notion Beauvoir carries over from her religious childhood, becomes possible only by accepting freedom, finitude and responsibility in this life, not in any afterlife.
Put simply Beauvoir keeps a word from her religious childhood, "transcendence": going beyond. But for her it is possible only by accepting freedom, mortality and responsibility in this life, not in any afterlife.
Beauvoir's slogan, "Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity": facticity is the thrown, already-there situation nobody can wish away, though anyone can push against it.
Put simply Beauvoir's slogan: "Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity." "Facticity" is the situation we are already thrown into, which nobody can wish away, though anyone can push against it.
Freedom, for Beauvoir, is no zero-sum game: when women seize theirs, men gain too, though no teleology guarantees it.
Put simply Beauvoir: freedom is not a contest where one side's gain is the other's loss. When women take their freedom, men gain too, though nothing in history guarantees it.
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
KojèveMan, for Kojève, is not a being but a nothingness, and that gap is exactly what leaves room for freedom: for acting, having a history, being an individual. L16 · 16:22
BeauvoirFor Beauvoir, creation starts from lack: a person is first of all a negativity, and only that absence opens room to make something positive, oneself included. L16 · 21:22
Beauvoir follows the idea that human negativity, a lack, is the precondition for self-creation.
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