Topic

duty

2 essays on duty from the Consilium journal. Featuring Simone de Beauvoir, Confucius, bell hooks. Each pits three thinkers against one hard question.


Ethics

When Is It Right to Choose Yourself Over Your Family?

De Beauvoir says the role was never the whole of you. Confucius says duties have real limits. hooks says love does not require your erasure. Three thinkers on the hardest version.

Simone de BeauvoirConfuciusbell hooksself-determinationduty

Ethics

Is It Okay to Prioritize Your Mental Health Over Your Responsibilities?

Three thinkers on mental health versus duty. Wollstonecraft says a hollowed self serves no one. Confucius says duty abandonment abandons who you are. Camus says you choose anyway.

Mary WollstonecraftConfuciusAlbert Camusself-careduty

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Albert Camus Confucius Mary Wollstonecraft Simone de Beauvoir bell hooks self-care self-determination

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