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Simone de Beauvoir

3 essays where Simone de Beauvoir sits on the council. Simone weighs in on self-determination, duty, settling. Read what Simone would tell you.

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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

Relationships

How Do You Know If You're Settling in a Relationship?

Three thinkers on the question of settling. Thoreau asks what you gave up. De Beauvoir says you pretend you have no choice. Fromm says you are trying to have love, not be in it.

Henry David ThoreauSimone de BeauvoirErich Frommsettlingexpectations

Relationships

How Do You Know When a Relationship Is Over?

Three thinkers disagree about when to leave. Esther Perel asks what died. Rumi says you already know. Simone de Beauvoir says stop pretending you have no choice.

Esther PerelRumiSimone de BeauvoirLetting GoCourageChange

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Confucius Erich Fromm Esther Perel Henry David Thoreau Rumi bell hooks Change Courage Letting Go duty expectations self-determination settling

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