Tag: Simone de Beauvoir

• Hypomnematamania

  I wouldn’t exactly call myself a hypomnematamaniac, or anything. Actually, I just discovered the  concept of hypomnemata quite recently -a few days ago, in fact. I had a bit of time on my well-washed, socially distanced hands, I suppose, and the thought occurred to me that I had never read all of Plato’s Republic, nor […]

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  August 25, 2021

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  Aeon.co, Andrew Hui, aphorisms, Classic Comic books, hypomnema, hypomnemata, message, methodology, Philosophers, précis, Robert Frost, Simone de Beauvoir, Wikipedia, Yale-NUS College in Singapore

• A spur to prick the sides of my intent

  Suppose it were possible to change things about your own birth? What a great idea, right? Just think what that might mean: at the very least, perhaps, that you would not be imprisoned by whatever genetics you were allotted; you might actually have a chance to be the master of your own fate; and if […]

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  March 3, 2021

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  Ada Jaarsma, Aeon.co, DNA, Epigenetics, existence precedes essence, existentialism, Feminism, inheritance, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mount Royal University in Calgary, philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir, stories

• Is time really out of joint?

  I imagine there comes a time for each of us when we finally realize we are getting old; a time when we feel that we are just catching up on news so aged that we were only children when it first arose. Information so old that I’m not sure what it should be called –opinion […]

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  February 10, 2021

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  Age, devotion, ethics, Kate Kirkpatrick, King’s College London, love, narcissism, Pyrrhus and Cinéas, reciprocity, Sartre, sexism, sexual hierarchies, Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

• Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?

  What have we done? Have we become so transfixed with definitions –differences– we have forgotten where we started? Where we want to go? Has the clarity for which we strived, opacified as it cooled? Sometimes the more encompassing the definition, the less useful it becomes. I suppose that coming from the putative dark side -that […]

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  February 26, 2020

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  Aeon.co, analytic feminism, continental feminism, definitions, emancipation, Feminism, Georgia Warnke, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Judith Butler, LGBTQIA, MIT, oppression, resignification, Sally Haslanger, Shakespeare, Simone de Beauvoir, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, UC Berkeley, University of California