Immanence vs transcendence
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Transcendence (de Beauvoir)?
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Reaching out into projects, freedom and the future — the human drive to become more than you were.
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Immanence (de Beauvoir)?
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Being confined to repetition and the given — the same tasks with no growth or reaching beyond.
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Are transcendence and immanence 'male' and 'female'?
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No — they're two directions ANY life can take; the wrong is women being blocked from transcendence.
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De Beauvoir's charge about women and immanence?
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Women are steered into endless upkeep, doors to projects closed, then told the confinement is their 'nature'.
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Why is blocked transcendence a wrong?
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Every human wants to reach out into projects; confining someone to repetition frustrates something essential to being human.
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The 'double cruelty' of the push into immanence?
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First the door to projects is closed, then the closing is blamed on the woman herself as her 'nature'.
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Is immanence always worthless? (Go further)
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No — caring and upkeep are real goods; the wrong is being TRAPPED in repetition with no path to your own projects.
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How does immanence link to 'the Other'?
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Being cast as the Other (10.11.1) is what makes it possible to push women into immanence.
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The Second Sex — de Beauvoir
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