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Article: ON THE QUESTION OF WOMAN: ILLUMINATING DE BEAUVOIR THROUGH KANTIAN EPISTEMOLOGY
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- Philosophy Today
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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Simone de Beauvoir did not expressly refer to Kant when dealing with the question of woman in The second Sex. Nevertheless, I believe that there are important similarities between her way of building the concept of woman and the trajectory of Kant's arguments in his synthetic epistemology. In this essay I would like to shed new light on de Beauvoir's concept of woman while making use of Kantian theory of knowledge. I will be dealing here, then, with the possible consequences of the de Beauvoir-Kant analogy for the comprehension of de Beauvoir's conceptualization of what it means to be a woman. I argue that by means of such analogy it is possible to shed light on a specific interpretation of ...