Beauvoir, Ontology, and Womenis Human Rights

Hypatia 14 (4):145-162 (1999)
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Simone de Beauvoir offers an important contribution to discourse on universal human rights. Her descriptive ontology of persons as free, interdependent, and situated in a world that offers resistance brings the discussion of human rights to a new level that also converges with some African perspectives. I claim that Beauvoir is able to defend universal human rights and, moreover, justify moral action against human rights abuses by showing the existential priority of ontological freedom.

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10.1353/hyp.2005.0031

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