Why Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Philosophy Resonates Today0

• Philosophy
• March 10, 2017

Simone de Beauvoir is rightly best known for declaring: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.’ A less well-known facet of her philosophy, particularly relevant today, is her political activism, a viewpoint that follows directly from her metaphysical stance on the self, namely that we have no fixed essences. The existential maxim ‘existence precedes