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Simone de Beauvoir on Freedom, Economic Injustice, and Resistance
Simone de Beauvoir (French, 1908-1986) is a philosopher of freedom. She thinks that man is free and ought to be free. When he acts, his actions must be unconstrained by any abstract moral rule – as Kant suggests – because abstract rules do not help in particular situations. Every particular situation has its own set…
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Freedom and Perfectibility in the Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By Abraham Keita- Student, Yale University What is freedom, or stated more precisely, what does it mean to be free or have free will? Is freedom a natural condition of the individual? Does individual freedom find legitimacy and full expression in political or civil society, or does this society hinder it? In an attempt…
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Abraham M. Keita 