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To: RightWhale
Yes, I agree with you. I should have used "described." But medicine is an organized discipline which is big on definitions.

By the way there is a new book review out that you can find HERE. Nasty things to say about the Sartre-Beauvoir compact.

20 posted on 04/09/2008 10:59:08 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

Got to say that Beauvoir was the first whose attempt to explain Existentialism resonated in my somewhat empty mind. She was translating Sartre as best as she could for people like me. It was only later that I recognized that the others were also trying as best they could to explain these things. I even read most of ‘Mandarins’ because of that, which was interesting more for her description of the end of the war and the return to normalcy among the philosophers of France than for their work.


21 posted on 04/09/2008 11:05:55 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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