Full Interview: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fNmEftOgs9W5pKs.html

I love their very engaging and 'active listening' body language. Excellent questions and answers. Thanks PO!

This woman is a force

She doesn’t hesitate and just goes at it, the interviewer didn’t know what was hitting him!

"people interpret God by their own tendencies" NOTHING HAS EVER BEEN MORE TRUE

Beautiful clarity from a true philosopher.

This mildly makes me want to learn French, because seeing how the English translation matches up with the actual words spoken is surprisingly cool.

Very good translation, and a precious piece of archive for us, thank you !

In 1981, when I was 21, I moved from western Canada to Paris, with $400 CAN in my pocket, obviously no computer or cell phone, and virtually no knowledge of French (I knew 2 sentences), to learn French in a year. What an adventure! I stayed just over 2 years. Working as a nanny, my French improved rapidly, speaking to the children. I studied SdB in a French Literature class I took at La Sorbonne ~ but this is incredible for me to hear her speak. (Step back from the interview, though ~ look as his leaning towards her, she is confined by a wall on one side and a corner on the other. I felt uncomfortable for her.) Even if you do not speak French, note the speed at which she conveys her intelligent thoughts. She was wrestling with Kant at age 18 ~ compare that to today's Kardashian Krap. (I am not dissing them as people, merely their level of thoughtless conversation.) Learning French changed the trajectory of my life, set me up in a fabulous career, and allowed me to meet amazing, life-long friends. What a shame that learning a second language is not a top priority for all young students in North America both above, and below, the 49th parallel...

Fascinating - I studied Philosophy at Uni many moons ago and read Sartre and some de Beauvoir. I've read 'Memoirs of a dutiful daughter' and seen her in photos of course, but never watched her in action and heard her speak until now. A great mind.

Fascinating and brilliant woman. French is such an expressive language.

Thank you so much to the channel for this clip. Simone is the second woman philosopher after Ayn Rand who has captivated me through her structured reasoning prowess. Inspired and awestruck ❤

heavyweight intellectual!!! fierce speaker!

I really like that she says “people interpret god on their own tendencies” it really explains a lot of religious behavior in America. Many say they believe something because it’s in the Bible, but I think it’s more just because they agree with it and can now justify it with religion. This can be both good and bad depending on whether the person is good or bad

Thanks for reuploading! These short interviews of Beauviour are very inspiring.

Thank you for sharing this. Cheers!

Intelligent interviewer. Much appreciated. Miss Jenny

Please post more footage like this it breathes life into the philosophy.

Amazing to see this footage

This is so refreshing. I'm afraid what pass as intellectual discussions nowadays are TED Talks and Freakonomics podcasts.

She is so sharp. There is no skirting around her words

Great upload - thank you!

What a personality! Thank you!

The precise nature of her expressions are truly exquisite.

this is great 😍❤️🔥

What a beautiful voice; I could listen to her all day long.

Alguien podría imaginar a esta mujer viendo Netflix ? … 18 años y leyendo a Kant wow ! que mujer !

Philosophy always impresses me . I love it.

So glad that this was recommended ❤️

Excellent. Beauvoir impresses us.

What a breath of fresh air!

It is always fascinating when I come across someone I have not heard before and they are saying what I think.

Thanks for translation to English.

More Philosophy, less Religion! Will definitely view the entire interview; this lady bought her “A” game!

When she does not find love, she may find poetry. Because she does not act, she observes, she feels, she records; a color, a smile awakens profound echoes within her; her destiny is outside her, scattered in cities already built, on the faces of men already marked by life, she makes contact, she relishes with passion and yet in a manner more detached, more free, than that of a young man. Being poorly integrated in the universe of humanity and hardly able to adapt herself therein, she, like the child, is able to see it objectively; instead of being interested solely in her grasp on things, she looks for their significance; she catches their special outlines, their unexpected metamorphoses. She rarely feels a bold creativeness, and usually she lacks the technique of self-expression; but in her conversation, her letters, her literary essays, her sketches, she manifests an original sensitivity.

What an unbelievably intelligent and beautiful woman.

Such clear precise reasoning.

“Modern philosophers are those who give advice to people who are happier than they are.” - Tom Lehrer

So good to see a real intellectual speak with a clear process and not contradict herself one sentence later; like happens almost every time with the pseudo-intellectual Jordan Peterson.

"What interests us (existentialists) is knowing what to do." It appears debating one another is at the top of the list.

she is incredibly sharp.

She did the legwork and I really appreciated that. Although you are profiling me way too hard, algorithm.

The interviewer seemed a bit timid at the end. Thanks for sharing.

I aspire to be even 50% as confident and sharp as she is. Such an intense security she has in her reasoning AND communication skills

Interview given in Montreal with a French Canadian host.

What a great clip from one of my favorites! Thanks!

Wow. Doesn't skip a beat.

"We are in charge of other own destiny" Is that true? "You can be what you want to be" Are you?

Woooowww! Amazing!

Love her touting Sartre's new book...

She's one of those authors that I've always been curious and always heard about, but whose work I never sat down and started reading... This is the first time I see her speak. It's interesting to think that deep down I knew I would resonate with her ideas, despite the fact that it's so often that her name will be mentioned as ways of speaking ill of feminism, sexuality and her supposedly bad behaviour, influenced by Sartre. Anyway, just me thinking about the way History will shape who people were.

Deep stuff!

Damm, what a mic drop!

HEART-BREAKING.

"Man is ultimately the reason for his own being, his own future, the very aim of all his activities. That is, we consider good all that serves the interests, happiness, development of man. And evil is all that goes against it." There is a reason why people with this outlook often go insane. It's like a motor running at full speed with no load, it will burn up. Pirsig dismantles this argument in Lila with his insights into dynamic and static quality. De Beauvoir is embodying static quality in this instance. Seeing humans as the end. This would be akin to a cell in the body believing it was the highest form of existence. It goes the same down and up the line. From strings, to then subatomic particles, then to atoms, then to molecules, then to amino acids, single celled organisms, and so on. In the same way a cell doesn't understand why it is the way it is or its grander purpose, people do not understand the larger context that we fit into. We are serving some higher dynamic quality than ourselves. Which is not to say that we should not enjoy ourselves, we should, but to think that we are the final destination and live to serve ourselves is in fact self serving as well as naïve. I understand how she arrived at this conclusion, which is a similar place I arrived as a teenager, like she did. But she unfortunately seemed to spend the rest of her life stuck in that place-- static. Well spoken, whip smart, and entrenched in her spot like a fortress, but static nonetheless.

Did they look into Buddhist philosophy, I wonder... the Buddha advised his followers to avoid asking transcendental questions about the source of things, as there are no answers, but to deal with our own actions (as far as I remember, I may be corrected if wrong!)

Imposing, magisterial

Brilliant

Faith as belief can be lost as an intellectual assent/dissent. Faith as, "to act as if," points more to one of two worldviews: Life has something intrinsically affirming or is acted out on an uncaring, meaningless stage to which only personal meaning counts.

brilliant woman!

spot on that lady.

I would’ve loved to have sat with Simone de Beauvoir in a café and just had a nice long conversation with her 🤷🏻‍♂️😅

I wonder what she would say to people who dont know what way they want to live, who dont know exactly what makes them happy, to people who simply need a leader to follow.

Thanks

Souvenirs, souvenirs ! De nos jours (j'ai 77 ans) nous avons Michel Onfray pour nous éclairer ! N'est-ce pas ?

The study of Philosophy is like a dog chasing its tail,round and round we go.If you catch the tail you release it and start chasing it again.There has to be more to life and we can't know this completely because we don't live forever.The answer may manifest itself when we die and no one can give the answer to this because we are on different planes at that point.It is not the answers to Philosophical questions that are important it is the pondering.

HOly SMoke. What a thinker.

From the old channel? I was wondering why I lost my subscription.

Not only an amazing, brilliant brain and strong personality, she was also physically quite an attractive woman.

what a beautifully articulate dissection on the existential lens. i had never heard of Simome before tonight but i will certainly be starting to read any works they may have written.

Discover your Self, dear hopeless. This is the only path that leads to being. Escape the void, the place where they made you fall into. Become ❤❤❤

Somebody told me once that existentialists were selfish. Watching this interview I conclude that this is true.

she signed a weird petition to the French government in 1977 🤨

Great thinker

I think she’s being very reductionist about Kant here. Kant was a believer in God, and she’s just focusing on the lack of, say, scientific knowledge of proving God found in the first critique but not the interesting arguments for rational belief in God found in the realm of morality in the second critique and aesthetics found in the third critique. I think it’s justifiable perhaps to say that the first critique is the only legitimate one in terms of justifiable knowledge, but that’s not how I interpret her here.

God does not corrupt man. Man corrupts God. She is absolutely right in saying that a philosopher has no need for questions of the metaphysical, but my experience with atheists has been arguing evidence of God's existence. I am a believer and I even fully admit to a lack of empirical evidence of God's existence. That is why it is called faith. Faith is a belief in something without evidence of its existence. I choose to believe that an entity created existence. It essentially rolled a pebble down a snowy mountain to see how vast and magnificent the snowball could get.

So we can certainly know the purpose of man without asking about the cause. What a fun way to live!

Very astute lady, I had similar réalisation as a teenager. And she’s very clear. The god thing veils our réalisation of what good and evil are in the world, while we already have the faculties to discern such things without blindly believing the un-falsifiable. She was refreshing.

Simone de Beauvoir, ahh❤ Thank you for this video. I have never heard her voice before.

Formidable....

Makes sense to me.

I was go to say ‘My lord, this was proudly interesting’ but decided it was more appropriate to remove the ‘My lord’ part of it.

I read her work at 12 though I don't quite get what she meant. It is only I stepped into the society and struggled upon the same problem that existed 5 years ago that I realised the weight in her opinions.

She lived at the Hotel Chelsea.

Perhaps including myself and Simone de Beauvoir we should have a sticker on our mirror”Are you sure?”

4:19 And that's where Islamic Theology comes in. It's a shape that most of it is not translated, but it contains some of the most accurate and to the point proofs for the existence of God.

shoutout to gabriel marcel

I am not an atheist but no longer a Christian fundamentalist. I now see God as analogous as firing the starting gun to a relay race, where each substance-specific participant is only a memory given their acheivements while running. A simple proposal that even Jordan Peterson would appreciate.

Loyd Cole and the commotions any body?

I don't care if she's a believer or not, but if she is against stupid and oppressive individuals or regimes, she's cool with me.

Her take on religion and belief is so much better than that of the new atheists.

I felt compelled toward a feeling I believed to be god. When I found the church, I found hierarchy. The structure was not the feeling. It seemed to be a goup of people who organized themselves around a celebrity, a celebrity like a king in away. A celebrity that got support to be their best selves. Dress in the best clothes and drive the best cars. This celebrity was best agreed with and best adored. Preist, Reverend, Dean are the titles they are given. All these things make them good and give them power. And, we all want to know and be approved of by this kind of person. But, for God, in the churches I've been a part of, I did not find. No Jesus. No Angels. Just these people: good and bad. So, I joined a church and became the one person these people felt better then. They look at me sympathetically and dismiss me as beneath them. They talk at me, and tell me I will get through what ever they think I am going through. They are the superior. This is what it is like to go to my church. So, I watch them. I smile. I listen. And, at the end of the day, I take care of them. They don't know. They need something I don't. They feel unimportant in a world of clothes and cars and people with more money. I prove to them I am less then them by giving only $10.00 a year. Pledging more so they can send me a bill. Waiting until next year to give $10.00 more. I once pledged $60.00. For years they sent me mail because of it. I got invited to every event, was given a refrigerator magnet, a Christmas card. I paid it over a couple of years. True story. I just went two weeks ago after filling out to donations envelopes as I sat through service. One had a mistake and since they told me they keep a file of everything they have found, even trash that I have written on. This file includes two hard copy photographs I have given to them for the online directory. All the post cards I've sent while I traveled writing "dash wendy" carX travel guide, all my notes to Jude and my Advance Directive. I feel they have enough written material from me to give me a proper funeral. However, two weeks ago my Dean as always looked straight at me as he gave his summon. I know this, because I sat in the tiny outlet to the right of the main pews. He has to turn his head and give the main part of tbe church his profile. True. As he gave his sermon to over a thousand people seated, he addressed me regarding those two envelopes I had left on the seat in May. I wasn't sure when he mentioned the first one, but when he said, "The second envelop of Jesus..." I started to pay attention. He made more references like thrift stores and college. Each on there own wouldn't have seemed much, but all together while looking down straight at me I felt he might have been discussing my finances. Maybe even begging me to give an offering. I never know with him, but he seems confident I need to know these things. So, I had to go outside and skip communion in case he announced me, by name at the communion reel and give anybody else the director impression he Had been speaking to me. This is my church. They need my help as you can read. No God, but plenty of people looking to find him. I guess, I am second best and will have to do in this hierarchy. I should mention here, I was a missionary at 18. I sailed on the Anastasis out of the Port of San Pedro. I believed in god. I did not know about hierarchy. I worked for the first mates wife in hospitality. I was seasick and hungry and hot crossing the equator. By the time we got to New Zealand, I had already stopped believing in a god altogether. But, something of a clairvoyant nature I could still recognize happening around me. I thought to myself, even without god, I could still be nice and friendly and give my opinion. I met some very nice people and some very troubled ones. I was always nice. I felt confident they all needed this me that I was. Then many years later I met Jack. He is a politician. He taught me about hierarchy. I think my in general got me through most of the hierarchy up until then. People thought of me as there superior or completely their inferior. Either way being nice seemed to be the way to keep all satisfied in which ever position they ranked me. Jack taught me something I couldn't have learned from any one else. He taught me to mentorship which is submission to someone knowing more then you. He knew, and I didn't. Simple. He however did not act all self important. He acted like I was important. This allowed me to submit. This is hierarchy. As time went by he and I had disagreements. He yelled at me, and I called him Mr! We ignored each other and said the wrong thing now and again. But, one arrangement has saved both of us. We agree to ignore each other when neccessary. This is balance. We each mentor the other when we are ignoring. He once did not ignore and noticed he had given me bad advice. He did something better afterward. He said, "Wendy, I do not know. Do what you think is right." This is the end of mentorship. I knew and he knew. He had taught me all he could regarding submission. I had taught him all I could as far as responsiblity when one is teaching another anything. Hierarchy is a hard lesson to learn and harder to be responsible to teach. I, myself only keep being nice while I wait for either God to show up or for those aound me to do what they think is right after they have been mentored in hierarchy. It is an existential waiting where I know I am responsible for my future, my own life, my family and friends. I have turned to Buddhism to get me through. The Meditation helps in this world of my anxiety driven by responsibility to do what I think is right. -wendy

Donc, pour la définition du bien et du mal, je retiens que c’est « la propre conscience » qui détermine et permet la définition.

Une femme trés évoluée á son Époque.

God, she was fabulous 🤍🤍🤍

Psalm14

"Não há Deus para nós"

I’m not sure if this is a valid critique of existentialism, but it seems to assume free will, which is potentially not in line with an scientific-atheist perspective. Free will seems to need the Transcendent (not necessarily God) otherwise it doesn’t appear to be able to exist in a deterministic materialist/naturalist universe. Anyone have thoughts on that?

Truly, life is meaningless without God

La fin de l'homme, c'est l'homme. Voilà pourquoi je méprise tant de philosophes.