Woman as the Other and as the Other Woman

Sim integrity de Beauvoir (1908-1986), French existentialist, writer, and social essayist, passed on nonwithstanding over two decades ago. Putting it this way makes her ideas so much much alive. She did non just now write most how she lived. She wrote, and she lived what she wrote about she refused to be the Other, exclusively she was in like manner, in a manner of putting it, the Other Woman.Simones breeding and Love(s) in Philosophy Simone de Beauvoir is now noted and appreciated as a philosopher. She was not always considered a philosopher however, simply a writer, and has only been habituated the distinction of world a noted philosopher in to a greater extent late(a) years.Her operates became considered philosophic only after her death. Beauvoir was born in France in 1908. She belonged to a bourgeoisie family, and had one sister. As a teenager, she decl bed herself an atheist, and commit her intent to feminism and writing (Marvin, 2000). App arntly, her parents disposition and acme were a major influence on her. Her father was extremely enkindle in pursuing a career in theater, but because of his social position (and with a noble lineage), he became a lawyer (which was expected), and detested it. Her m opposite, on the other hand, was a strict Catholic.Some authors hold in noted that Simone struggled amongst her mothers religious morals and her fathers more pagan inclinations, and this purportedly led to her atheism and shaped her philosophical melt down. As a child, Simone was religious and had a descent with God. She wrote in early live about her thankfulness that heaven had given her the immediately family that she had, but this cutaneous senses (at least the religious aspects of it) dissipated as she aged (Flaherty, 2008). When she was around 15, Simone de Beauvoir inflexible she would be a famous writer.She did well in many subjects, but was especially attracted to philosophy, which she went on to study at the University of Paris. thither she met many other young creative geniuses, including Jean-Paul Sartre, who became her best friend and life-long companion. The group of friends that she spent her era with was considered a bad group, a circle of rebels. Such perceptions did not upshot however for Simone and Sartre whose fondness for each other only grew over the years. Their deeds were frequently linked as they read and critiqued each others writings, and she was sort of considered as his student the Other.However, she was not just the Other, she was a epoch-making Other, as it were. Their relationship became intimate and Sartre even proposed to her. She however declined the proposal because she felt that marriage was such a constricting institution and that they should, instead, be allay to love others (Flaherty, 2008). after graduating from the university, Simone lived with her grandmother and taught at a lycee, or exalted shallow. She taught philosophy at several schools throughout he r life, which allowed her to live comfortably. She spent her issue epoch going to cafes, writing, and giving talks.In Berlin, she spent time with Sartre and they got linked with two female students, the sisters Olga and Wanda Kosakiewicz. Sartre initially pursued Olga but subsequently had an affair with Wanda. raze that he and Simone had agreed that they would be free to love others. During this time, Simone got very roll and spent some time in a sanitarium. By the time she left the sanitarium, Olga was married, and Wanda and Sartre were no longer lovers (Flaherty, 2008). This phase in her life, one could perhaps say, highlighted her journey as the Other Woman. Simone traveled around the world later in her life, lecturing.She came to the United States in the 1940s and met another man, Algren. He proposed to her, but she opted to stay with Sartre instead. Also during her travels, Simone participated, with Sartre, in the 1967 Bertrand Russell Tribunal of War Crimes in Vietnam. There she met several noted leaders, including Khrushchev and Castro however, unlike Sartre, she did not particularly enjoy being in the public spotlight. (Gascoigne, 2002) In 1981, when Sartre died, Simone wrote a memoir about him. After this, she continued to take drugs and drink alcohol, which contributed to her mental decay.She and Sartre had always taken drugs and alcohol. Simone frequently became drunk throughout her life. She died in 1986, and was buried beside Sartres remains (Gascoigne, 2002). Beauvoirs Views My Reflections Beauvoir strictly considered herself a writer, not a philosopher. Others did not see her as a philosopher because, in what may to daylight be described as sexism, she was a woman and thus inferior in some ways. Moreover, she was also seen as merely a student of Sartre and not as a philosopher in her own right. On top of it all, she was a woman who wrote about women.It must be pointed out that this field of study was not really accepted in the academe unt il very recently hence, Beauvoirs work was not accepted as being philosophical during her time. She was indeed severely overshadowed by Sartre, especially because some of her work reflects his (Bergoffen, 2004). Beauvoirs philosophical ideas cerebrate on how truths in life were revealed in literary productions. She wrote several essays, including Literature and the metaphysical Essay (1946) and Mon Experience dEcrivain, which translates to My Experience as a source (1956).Her whole kit include both fiction and non-fiction, all in regards to canvas literature in reaction to human relationships and thoughts (Bergoffen, 2004). Truly life is reflect by literature, but literature is also a part of life, and life can be shaped by literary work. In the life and works of this trailblazing feminist writer-philosopher, one can see the reality of literature as a potent force not only of self-expression but also of life changing. Feminism was of primary importance to Beauvoir, and she is considered to be one of the pioneers of the movement.In fact, Beauvoir is best known for her feminist work, The Second Sex, now a perfect of feminist literature (Eiermann). In this work, she looks at the role of women in society, and the advantages and disadvantages that she, herself, faced. It was initially not thought of as a philosophical work because it dealt with sex, which, during the straitlaced era, was not a subject openly discussed. In reality, the handwriting almost examines patriarchal society and its impact on women, and calls for women to take action against these oppressions.It discharged up women of later generations to fight for political, social, and personal change. The book remains debated to this day because of the way it addresses the issues, but it is still considered a major early book on feminism (Bergoffen, 2004). Here she put an exclamation point on her observations of Woman in society being seen and tempered merely as the Other. Beauvoir is also kno wn for an earlier work, Force of Circumstance. Within this piece she discussed resilient issues of the day-confusion and rage regarding human licenses and the French/Algerian War (Flaherty, 2008).Human license was a big issue that was crucial in Beauvoirs work. She was particularly touch that people needed to be free. This is reflected in the way she lived her own life, and in the way she lectured others. She walked her talk, and was for some time describable perhaps (albeit from a instead sexist perspective) as being the Other Woman, with no rancor, in Sartes life. She Came to Stay (1943) is another work that deals with license. This is a novel that deals with reflections on our relationship to time, to each other, to ourselves (Bergoffen, 2004).The work doesnt fit a traditional philosophical framework, where unbeliefs are brought to a close and amply answered. Instead it only explores incredulitys by looking at the lives and interactions of the main characters. In this n ovel, a murder is commit because of a characters desire for freedom, and the novel examines if the murder was just or not, among other issues surrounding the situation. This work is frequently considered her original current philosophical work (Bergoffen, 2004). How many times have this student been asked this question in real life by friends and particular circumstances freedom or life?There is something profoundly unsettling in the questions that Beauvoirs works raises. In She Came to Stay, purportedly a fictionalized chronicle of Beauvoir and Sartres relationship with the sisters Olga and Wanda, we are treated to an exploration of complex personal relationships. Olga was one of her students in the Rouen secondary school where she taught during the early 30s. In the novel, Olga and Wanda are made into one character with whom fictionalized versions of Beauvoir and Sartre have intimate relationships.The novel delves into Beauvoir and Sartres complex relationship. She wrote about her life, and she lived her writings. With what she wrote, she pursued her questioning, her philosophizing. Pyrrhus and Cineas (1944) is Beauvoirs first philosophical essay and a major turning point in her life as a writer. This essay looks at questions like What are the criteria of ethical action? How can I distinguish ethical from wrong political projects? What are the principles of ethical relationships? Can violence ever be justified? The essay looks at the moral, political, and other implications of these questions, and hike explores the notion of freedom, relationships, and violence. Simone was not sure if violence was truly justified, but concludes that it is neither evil nor avoidable. The questions are not truly resolved in this work, much like in her front work (Bergoffen, 2004). Then there is Ethics of Ambiguity (1947), which further looks at ethical questions regarding freedom, and the difference between childhood and adulthood.According to Beauvoir, children live in mystery, and they should. However, she posits that children should also be forced to be adults and there could be violations of freedom involved in this. This work expands on the idea of freedom from the previous work, and looks at new dimensions of it (Bergoffen, 2004). Two themes seem to appear most prominently in the work of Beauvoir Freedom and Feminism. The Feminine is made an agent of freedom and is problematized so in the work of Beauvoir. Today, many still turn to her work for we can see the realities that her work reflects.We still find Woman as the Other in some societies with her multiple burdens given her second-class status. hitherto in the supposedly modern nation that is the U. S. we find gender an unsettling bear on in electoral politics. More broadly, freedom remains a snarly ideal in the globalizing world. Many states (e. g. , North Korea, China, Cuba, the young Republics in eastern Europe) remain unstable at their core having had to grapple with forces o f change and freedom from within and from outside their societies and territories.At another level, the world is not lacking with individuals and groups with their mingled advocacies aimed at expanding the limits of freedom in civil society. Today the woman question has become the bigger concern that is Gender. This student now more fully realizes that gender is a social-psychological thing while sex is a biologic or physical matter. The Woman is more than her body after is all. To be Woman is a choice, is a matter of freedom. The definition of gender lies not in the body. Gender is the realization of what you think and feel you are, and what you prefer as a lifestyle, to put it broadly.