De Beauvoir's Non-Committal Philosophy of Love

De Beauvoir's Non-Committal Philosophy of Love | Mr & Mrs Smith

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3 ай бұрын

Simone de Beauvoir's existential philosophy presents relationships as a threat to our freedom. She argues our pursuit for meaning is directly restricted by our romantic commitments.
Based on the threats raised by de Beauvoir, we will explore the extent to which we can pursue love and existential projects simultaneously, or whether the two pursuits are mutually exclusive.

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@9cross 2 ай бұрын

Love is still in infancy. For so long humans have had to deal with war and disease and still do. But in the modern world love is becoming new.

@vg1024 2 ай бұрын

Beauvoir is a shining example of the idiom... Just because you have an original thought doesn't mean the thought was worth having.

@phiphicupcake5754 2 ай бұрын

what do you mean?

@vg1024 2 ай бұрын

@@phiphicupcake5754 how well are her ideas helping people today? Is hook up culture and an inability to commit and/or sacrifice in a longterm relationship really the optimal way to support children. Science and logic say "obviously not".

@LoneWulf278 2 ай бұрын

I think she is an example of an affluent aristocrat who didn’t have to think much about her own survival or social contract within society, let alone that of children. These types of people tend to have interesting ideas, but they can’t (and shouldn’t) be followed by most people. 🤷‍♀️ Still fun to read, though. 😂

@strl895 2 ай бұрын

@@vg1024it’s not everyone’s goal in life to have children…. But I find it hard to believe that any woman has been so well-read as to personally create hookup culture secondhand. The idea that hookup culture benefits women is a red herring, anyway. It doesn’t. If anything it increases risks of sexual violence, and makes a lot of women more easily accessible to sexual abuse. I’m not so sure personally that my idea of the ideal antithesis of marriage is…. Sleeping with a bunch of people one has no other attachments with

@LisaSoulLevelHealing 2 ай бұрын

@@vg1024 for women, its amazing. A coming realization that msrriage statistically benefit men and directly has negative benefits of women. So her thoughts 100% match the data....for women. Im not getting married again legally.

@fortunewrangler8524 2 ай бұрын

Unless I'm having a kid with someone, "If I start to be partners with anyone else, I'll let you know first thing when I see you next" is the only commitment that I find psychologically healthy to offer or ask for.

@kobieta3906 2 ай бұрын

Genius video, i was definitely expecting this to have way more views. I used to love mr and mrs smith movie as a kid, but never conciously thought about it in this way. good conclusions from an objective viewpoint, commitment is part of freedom👍

@vaishnavimuralidhar5731 3 ай бұрын

Another great video. Learn so much from these, thank you!

@lalalala-qc7cp 2 ай бұрын

Please i would love more of these videos about other different topics etc

@practicable 2 ай бұрын

This is my last video on love :) Next one will be on the emotions

@Daneiladams555 2 ай бұрын

No wonder I never got married

@LisaSoulLevelHealing 2 ай бұрын

Nice. Very accurate

@malachiazs 2 ай бұрын

Which work does she mention her views on relationships?

@eliwa8iuyjj00 2 ай бұрын

Great stuff! Have you heard of relationship anarchy? De Beauvoir’s theory is very similar to it.

@timothysommerladenneagram 2 ай бұрын

Sounds great 😀!

@emmicllns 2 ай бұрын

love this!

@practicable 2 ай бұрын

Happy to hear :)

@bchan6742 2 ай бұрын

Good stuff!

@practicable 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@vanessac1965 2 ай бұрын

Very modern western view of life's meaning: what we do, projects. No indigenous or relogious culture would agree.

@Sean-dl8ym 2 ай бұрын

I completely agree with De Beauvoir's take. I find the idea of commitment in relationships offensive. I much prefer each of us, daily, to re-evaluate our feelings and decide if that day we still desire to be with each other. I cannot live any other way. And no, I don't want children

@stefanisilva2493 2 ай бұрын

That's what most people prefer. The problem is that these same people will want others to be there for them when needed - very feel live up to their own "total freedom" values and endure gracefully the bad side of their choice. Most are incoherent and want others commiting to them.

@flavorgod 2 ай бұрын

Hedonist

@mobinsadeghi 2 ай бұрын

Sean? Sean O'Malley? Is that you bro😂

@dadaistaingegniere 25 күн бұрын

De Beauvoir did not know what freedom means, from what comes her erroneous thinking. She considered a human being as a complex insect, because she looked to be during her lifetime the queen of the honeycomb.

@miragelite Ай бұрын

4:05 actively fart against

@encounteringjack5699 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, freedom as the basis of all goodness, is flawed. That’s what this philosophy based on. Freedom, pure freedom, is no relationship at all. No attachments, complete control over what you can do, and overall is nothing that hinders your path at all. Complete freedom is a disaster. Pure freedom can be immoral, unjust, and selfish, destructive. A relationship of love is never about pure freedom. Nor about freedom in general. It contains freedom, but it is not without constraints. A relationship helps push each other forward and makes life easier by helping to manage struggles. Sex is an important factor, yes. However, sex is not even an important thing to do in life. To progress the human species, yes, it is important. Outside of that though, it’s just an urge. And without intimacy sex is worthless. That’s why casual sex is worthless, and maybe even stupid. Satisfies an urge, but does nothing else. And if an urge is all that you want satisfied, then just masturbate. No need to jump from one person to the next. Nothing meaningful will come out of having casual sex.

@SystemsMedicine 2 ай бұрын

“… where both people are filling their lives with projects that make them happy” ?? Apparently the producer of this vid is actually an inhabitant of a children’s storybook, and has decided to pop out onto Earth and proclaim to everyone that they should be living a perfect ‘happy life’. [The ‘solutions’ suggest in the video to the problem posed by the (delusional) childish goal seem equally vapid. It’s nice that people think about this stuff, but perhaps they should think a little more.]

@practicable 2 ай бұрын

my source material for this video was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Please let me know if you find anything more enlightening

@SystemsMedicine 2 ай бұрын

@@practicable Well now you’re just making me feel bad for wanting a certain modicum of analytical accuracy. Wow. I’ll avoid this in the future (for your channel). [I suppose this means I’ll finally have to grow up and take things less seriously.] Cheers. Thx.

@pincopallino8176 2 ай бұрын

@@SystemsMedicine So you think making your life miserable on purpose is mature behavior?

@SystemsMedicine 2 ай бұрын

@@pincopallino8176 silly silly silly [Why engage in this kind of thing? Bye.]

@user-xm9ms5dl8d 2 ай бұрын

And she died childless. Never truly knowing love. What a life.

@practicable 2 ай бұрын

lol

@alicechase9290 2 ай бұрын

At the time, she saw what marriages were like for women, she made a smart decision

@bizbite2 2 ай бұрын

She never had children becoming genetic dead end… you will end like her following her…

@butterfork_rd 2 ай бұрын

who are you to say what “truly knowing love” is for someone else?

@noye7448 2 ай бұрын

she has a daughter, Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir and why does not having a child make a person not know love? you can't determine how someone else feels love just based on your perception of love.

@malachiazs 2 ай бұрын

Which work does she mention her views on relationships?