(University of North Bengal, 2018-03) Chakraborty, Jhuma
This paper endeavours to discuss two real life relationships from the
perspective of two philosophers- Carol Gilligan, a renowned psychologist and
philosopher and Simone de Beauvoir an existentialist philosopher. I will show how
the readings of these relations become difficult from the perspectives of two
philosophies. Both of them have critiqued the patriarchal top down structure like
any other feminist and have explored and interpreted human relations from novel
perspectives. Gilligan maintains that human beings are essentially related. Gilligan
suggests that the entire relational network of a society can be sustained through
care and empathetic listening of the voices of the ‘Other’. Beauvoir is an existentialist
philosopher who maintains that human existence creates his/her being through
freedom. One should go beyond the constraints of our contingent existence and
give meaning to everyday relations through a never-ending venture of taking new
projects.
