PHL 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Milgram Experiment, Robert Brasillach, Planned Parenthood
11 Jan 2017
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Interpret text, what is beauvoir"s argument and give a critical analysis of her argument. Failures of freedom rise about facticity (that from which is simply given) We have the capacity to transcend our fatile situation there would be no ethics if we were simply determined by the situation we were in. So, we have the capacity for freedom but our freedom is not easy,as it is a burden. Realizing our subjectivity we can turn them into objects. The serious person sacrifices subjectivity for an objective truth. When someone believes an objective truth, their subjectivity doesn"t matter. Robert brasillach was a fascist nazi posting names of jewish people, ]punish him for his collaboration with nazis. If a man were permitted to be a brute fact, he would merge with the trees and pebbles which are not aware they exist; we would consider these opaque lives with indifference. But the sub-man arouses contempt, that is, one recognizes him to be responsible (48)
