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Literature & Philosophy
Kaitlin Weinstein (Self (Rationalsim…
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Race
Jordan Peele's Get Out
Peele’s film literalizes Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness through placing white minds into black bodies. He also references Locke’s prince and cobbler thought experiment, considering whether identity is retained if one’s consciousness is transplanted to a different body. Georgina and Walter take on different identities based on the larger groups that they are in; they play the roles of the servants whose bodies they inhabit when observed by outsiders, but they revert back to the grandparents whose consciousness they have when they are alone with the family.
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Gender
Judith Butler's "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: an Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory"
Butler writes about how gender is a performance that is constructed through acts. She builds off of de Beauvoir’s idea of gender not being an innate essence. Gender is socially constructed and people accept it because of historical context and repetition of actions.
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Sophocles's Antigone
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Antigone poses the question of whether following duty or the law of the state has greater moral worth. Antigone believes in duty to her family and the gods over human law, while Creon thinks that human law and the good of the state are the most important. Antigone is portrayed as a martyr, swaying the play toward a deontological end.
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