M. Kagan's notes on selection from Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in Mahowald's Philosophy of Woman , pp. 80-99. (Note: This text, as indicated in the syllabus, is on reserve in the library).

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Michael Kagan
Le Moyne College Department of Philosophy
Syracuse, NY 13214
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Begin by briefly reviewing the central and crucial role of freedom in this kind of existentialism, the concept of project and responsibility. Perhaps even discuss Camus' Myth of Sisyphus.

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