Ph.D Wesly Cecil’s humorous lecturing style is fantastic that attracts the audience attention. At the same time, the way how he cohesively exhibits his serious understanding over any philosophers is unbelievable.

Professor Cecil, this one placed chills in my hair on my arms as I listened to you about Simone de Beauvoir. What an extraordinary woman and a woman I get. Although, I must read these writings she wrote. Again, I love your humor as you teach. Furthermore, you make philosophy a joy. With the deepest appreciation and respect for your intelligence.

One of the most comprehensive and compelling summaries of a person's life in philosophical work I have had the pleasure of listening to. Thank you for sharing.

"Living is: not knowing if everything is going to work out."

Her idea that legal rights are necessity but not sufficient for freedom is quite interesting. She had women in mind. But Blacks, workers and other oppressed human groups have discovered after winning certain legal rights that this was important but not enough to win them full freedom. Perhaps this is the case with every excluded or proscribed human group.

What a relief that Simone de Beauvior was confident and had the will and the guts to write and to live the life she proposed in her work. What a relief that so many were inspired to seize the courage to do so as well. What a relief that there are professors out there who recite her work in a positive light to empower their students to discuss freedom rather than constant repression. As for the laughter in class, consider the fact that the professor had found a way to address the study of philosophy to a student body in a kind of communicative engagement that they needed to retain this study. I don't necessarily agree or disagree with the method.

Philosophy teaching is alive and kicking! :-) It was an immense pleasure! Looking forward to the other lectures! Thankyou!

She was an incredible writer and her ideas helped to change how society sees women

Many thanks for this gift. 💐

These talks are exceptional. Many many thanks.

lectures don't usually give me the chills. beyond excellent

Wes Cecil - Fantastic introduction to Simone De Beauvoir and the parameters of her philosophy. Lucid, political and humorous - very stimulating 👍

Wow! A superb lecture by a very entertaining and engaging lecturer!

thank you so much for posting these lectures

This is an exceptional lecture! So lively! Simon is such an inspiration. Thank you for your work, dear Wes!

The first exemple! That was great.

Thank you for this lecture. It was a pleasure to listen to it.

A great lecture, which demonstrates her brilliance and originality in a completely sympathetic and accurate way. A pleasure to listen to it.

Wow great talk and magnificent ideas. I am particularly inspired by de Beauvoir's take on (unconventional) relationships.

Amazing and true. THANK YOU!

Thanks, having to write a long-ass essay in French, thanks for your informative way of making this process less painful!

Thank you! Entertaining and informative, that's how a lecture should be! Helped me a lot to prepare an own presentation for a class about sexism.

Great lecture. Inspiring

Riveting, easy to understand humorous and fact laden talk even for the lay non-philosopher on de Beauvoir's approach to life and her concepts of true freedom. It has current application for our approach to life today with its emphasis on one's individual effort needed to break with conformity in order to achieve her (your) goals. A must listen to lecture!!

Profoundly moving discussion. Thanks Prof. Cecil. Good stuff. 😊🎒♥️

this was so good

She sounds a lot like Stirner to be honest. In regards her proposition to reject narratives because they exist outside of the individual and cannot be made ones own. While she attacked certain subject matter differently than Stirner, the two have pretty inspiring works in regards to individualistic philosophy and ethics.

ideas well expressed I havnt read her literature I think helpful regardless as one may move through most of these phases in life in a moder city

Great subject and presenter !

Brilliant! I am new to your channel. Thank you.

A prolific thinker, in her own time as well as in ours.

Thank you.

I have found the youtube channel for me ... finally

EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT

This lecture was absolutely hilarious, I loved it in every respect! Are you familiar with Larry David's "Curb"? Sometimes you remind me of him. Loving all your videos, please keep it up! Some of the greatest content of KZfaq.

Female economic liberation is perhaps better associated with animal domestication and cottage industrys. For example, women who owned chickens and sold eggs were able to draw income and from a cottage, use those resources to knit and produce goods they owned completely. Production at this level was of course only possible when the rent was not too high. Unfortunately this lecturer is romancing industrial revolution which broke cottage industries, and denied many highly skilled female producers their first true income. The macro historical narrative of agriculture as backward and industry as modernizing skips important issues of landownership and self-sustainable economic issues that were disrupted by colonialization and monopolization of the modes of production.

Professor Cecil!! I love that movie TIN CUP!!! ;)

good lecture big help

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The mother and queen of "Me Too".

Well, SdB was really great about her thoughts on the liberation of = fairness for women. But, what she said about China was just stupid or blind. What about the thousands of political murders and prison camps? What about the devastation of historical heritage? What about the extremely stupid industrialization attempts that led to 30 million deaths of famine?

Read my blog on Simone de Beauvoir which commemorates the 30th anniversary of her passing: abromley91.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/simone-de-beauvoir-conformism-wasnt-her-thing-but-freedom-was/

The mother and founder of all things me and my happiness I-generation and congratulations to all her followers

the fastest growing homeless demographic in US right now are older women of all backgrounds but primarily brown/black BUT women who already served humanity, trusting that we would not end up homeless. we can't actually hang out in cafes and chart our own economic.futures until freedom from those.who own and control the means of production shift consciousness and values.

16:34 - middle class women didn't want to give up their easy lives to take on work

What you edit is Aristophanes

33:00

Yah, it's either history or her story, ☯️ but you have to believe your own story 😄🎭 before you can believe anyone else's 🤥 story🤺 Direct Experience is The Now🧘

do Albert Camus please

Has anyone done a study of attitudes towards feminism of different classes of women or (at least in America) different racial groups of women?

Vive la Reine!

I suddenly find a lot of similarities btwn her and Max Stirner, anyone else?

Didn't 2 women score ahead of Sartre

Yeah, people have a choice to choose, even if they choose to not to choose what the communists say have really been chosen for them, and that they should have chosen the alternative choice to really prove that they have a choice after all. Again, wonderful humor and erudition. As well, you have the voice and manner of a young Jimmy Stewart!

5:35 - tried to get married to a rich man and leech off him - it fell through

I hate an audience that doesn't know when to laugh or not.

Wes Cecil is obviously a very engaging and entertaining lecturer and clearly gets energy from the audience. But, I find it a bit cringeworthy how some people laugh a little too loudly at even the most marginal of Cecil's jokes. These students undoubtedly are sitting in the front row and attend every lecture. I do not condemn or criticize any student for being enthusiastic learners, particularly adult students in the United States, where one can be forgiven for thinking mental enrichment has fallen woefully behind the rest of the world. And I certainly don't begrudge Cecil for hamming it up a little. Heck, I do it too if it helps keep my students engaged with the material. But there's just something about sycophants that sucks a little joy out of a classroom. I know I'm nitpicking here. I just can't help it. Please take the guffawing down a notch. it's not all about you. I'm sure Dr.Cecil knows you enjoy his class - he doesn't need a chorus of braying donkeys to affirm that he is charming.

You dont need bread, eat cake.

But she was unwilling to face one fact about the human condition: that humans are not free and that she was working with a conception of the human subject inherited from the conception of the human soul in Christianity. She bought into that particular story, despite her atheism, and that's where her conception of freedom comes from. But there is no soul, there is no pure human subject that is "just human and not a woman, a man, an African-American, a member of the bourgeoisie", etc, and there is no such thing as human freedom. Those are myths.

"Who's the doctor?" Pretty freakin' obvious - if the father is dead, she has to be his mother.

19:38 - pretends cinderella fantasy was about children

Did Beauvoir ever comment on asexual people?

This is a fun and interesting lecture but it becomes almost intolerably dishonest when he ridicules gay people who want to get married, claiming that they are only trying to fit into cultural stereotypes that they mindlessly accept. He should know that there are all sorts of legal issues that are relevant to a relationship and why shouldn't they seek religious acceptance as well if they are into that? Then he endorses de Beauvoir's praise for the Chinese Communist regime -- even after the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square. He claims that the party only does what the people want and when they don't the people revolt and the party self-corrects. If students Tiananmen Square happened today, he says, "the people" would go down there and beat the hell out of them. Why fight for democracy when Big Brother takes such good care of you? And all the while he is telling us that de Beauvoir was only concerned about freedom.

Ruined by adverts intervening every couple of minutes. VERY ANNOYING. I eventually switched off.

Max Steiner but a Woman

The Second Sex changed my life. It's like the bible, but true and for women.

Her humanizing, existential quest for freedom sounds a lot like the theist, who is always seeking the sacred or God despite his or her lack of death. In other words, their version of the religious life is the quest.

He clearly edited out the plethora of rape scenes in the classics lol. Dont how you didnt pick up on that.

Not keen on the unearned laughter.

! WAS READ SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR IN 1970, I ADMIRED HER, BUT NOT FOR THE BOOK SECOND SEX BECAUSE I WAS AND STILL TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH HER, WITH ALL SHE WROTE IN THAT BOOK. RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT MOMENT ALWAYS HAPPENS. AND HAPPENS WITH SIMONE. WHY? SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR WAS THERE, BEFORE AND AFTER SECOND WORLD WAR, SHE WAS RIGHT AT THAT TIME, THAT EXPLAINS WHY SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR WAS "EXTRAORDINARY " IN HER BOOK THE SECOND SEX. SURREALISM, ETC ETC NOW IS WRONG. SINCE THE BEGINNING DNA AND HORMONES DETERMINE GIRLS, AND BOYS , NO SOCIETY. SHE WAS AN EXTRAORDINAIRE WRITER, SHE SIMPLE WANTED TO SAY WITH EXTREAMLY DETAILS EVERY THING, ALL !!! AND IT WAS GREAT, AND NOW THANK YOU MISS SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Video is about a decade old... Maybe now we are beginning to think more about existential philosophy... we sure could use it as a basic answer for a lot of questions... That people still don't ask actually. So yeah, no existentialism; just barbarians eating turds.

What a pity this video is very poorly organized.

why are these ppl laughing? they are oblivious to the actual words and ideas he's relating.

Where was this lecture? The comedy club? Or was he lecturing to hyenas? He gets more laughs than Dane Cook. Completely subverts the entire video for me. I was looking for something intellectual, but it turns into some kind of weird chuckle fest. Good to know that philosophy sucks at other colleges as much as it does at mine.

Comedy hour, worthless, learn nothing.

Thank you.