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The serious man simone de beauvoir6/7/2023 ![]() We either want to ignore the facts that are true about us or the possibilities that we have so that one side will just fall into the mud pit already, and we can all stop pulling on this stupid rope. Last episode, what followed from this, if you’re Sartre, is that people are made massively uncomfortable by this constant tug-of-war that’s going on, and we all tend to gravitate towards removing one side of the people pulling on the rope. So, last episode we talked about Sartre’s idea that at the foundation of who we are there’s a constant tug-of-war that’s going on between what he calls our facticity and our transcendence: our facticity being the facts that are true about us at any given moment and our transcendence being the possibilities that we have at our disposal. ![]() Today’s episode is part two on Simone de Beauvoir. ![]()
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