He is a lot of these top Korean music companies management companies their annual revenues ranging from anywhere between $100.00 to over $250000000.00 a year is bigger than the entire music economies of Taiwan Hong Kong and all of Southeast Asia and what about the stars themselves did they see much of this money that's coming in because of their album sales or is it one of those situations where the record labels make a lot of money but the styles don't do so well with b.t.s. a Large part of their success has to come from their social media business they were the most tweeted celebrity in 2017 getting more mentions than Justin Bieber and Donald Trump combined but it's really fascinating and impressive as they've really translated that business into a business their upcoming world tour is one of the hottest concert tickets right now in the world their u.s. Tour sold out when a matter of hours the so for a band like b.t.s. 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Or c c dot o r g and making your financial contributions safely on line Hello I'm Rajan data and coming up after the news on the forum today we're delving into the life and work of one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century a writer and activist Simone de Beauvoir was brought up in a conservative Bush to our French family in Paris but went on to live an action packed unconventional life with John Paul Sartre she was part of the golden couple of intellectual society in Paris playing a crucial role both in the development of existentialist thinking and feminism her views advanced considerably towards group solidarity and action after France was occupied in World War 2 she was still selling revolutionary newspapers on street corners in her sixty's and politically active too she died and then remained controversial afterwards I'll be joined by a biographer Simone de Beauvoir a close friend of hers and a leading philosopher to examine this fascinating and it Matic character so please join us after the news. 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Welcome to the forum where we're discussing the life of one of the most influential female thinkers of modern times a French philosopher and writer whose work exploring what it is to be a woman went on to shape feminist thinking today yes we're talking about Simone de Beauvoir she was a pioneer who defied society's rules and norms and could be argued be described as the mother of existentialism with John Paul Sartre she was one half of the golden couple of philosophy but just as if not more importantly she laid out a radical new vision of the role of the female in society one is not born but rather becomes a woman no biological psychological or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature indeterminate between male and unit which is described as feminine Simone de Beauvoir own personal journey through most of the 20th century was colorful eventful and often passionate and so today will be exploring her life ideas and legacy I'm Rajan debts are and I'm joined by 3 experts ready to share their knowledge the author and novelist Lisa opinion Izzy who has written about de Beauvoir life cloudy Montell a woman's rights specialist and author who knew Simone personally in her later years who joins us from Paris and the academic to of a Pettersen who tell us about her philosophical stance Welcome to you will soon be discussing Simone de Beauvoir as contribution to philosophy literature and politics but 1st just as a little aperitif let me ask all 3 of you to say in a nutshell my should be even be discussing her today Lisa Well she was the great painting. The kinds of feminist questions about gender that we discuss today she's a woman of great intelligence and lucidity and judiciousness and prone to passions as well so she's got it all over. Well but worse against all kinds of oppression of class individuals people and her arguments against oppression are compelling and highly relevant today as is the argument for why freedom for both self and other is mandatory in order to live a good life. Kloden she was a good friend of us but tell me more why should we care about her today very simply because all the issues that she has been dealing with are issues of our modern time every fight for human rights fights for women's issues fives for elderly people every possible issues that are going on the around the world are Simone de Beauvoir issues Ok Well Simone de Beauvoir was born on the 9th of January in 1908 to a rather bourgeois family Lisa tell me more what do we know about her beginnings her mother came from a very good family that had suddenly lost all its money by the time suburban came into being and her father was an aristocrat who didn't really want to pursue any career wanted to act and be a man about town and so who she grew up in a rather impoverished condition her mother was very pious and conventional and I think the mother learnt a great deal about what happens to women who give up their lives for their families and for love of their husband and and become in some sense contorted by this and as you said her mother was very pious and Simone was sent to a convent school during her youth and was developed the religious herself so much so that she considered becoming a nun at the age of 14 at least Simone de Beauvoir announced a sort of as an atheist how did this conversion happen well she realized soon enough that although her mother pretended to know everything about her she couldn't penetrate her secrets and God seemed to be very much the same that he really wasn't paying attention to her sins so why maintain one's religion she she always had a very rigorous intelligence I think even as as a child the way she describes herself I mean she took problems. 2 there and clothing you knew her and she never lacked confidence in her own ability her own specialist she was new friends should be right says that right yes she wanted to be a writer she knew that very young she was writing stories where her sister Helen De Beauvoir who became a well known painter was making is a 1st drawings but Simone de Beauvoir said to me was that the great chance he had in her life was 1st of all that they were broke and that therefore she will have had to work and a 2nd chance what that there was no boy there was no son and that therefore George Brett turned a Beauvoir would be talking to her as if he was talking to is a sound he never had well as we mentioned Simone most certainly had an appetite and aptitude for learning in around 1926 she left home to attend the prestigious so bone where she studied philosophy Meanwhile she informally attended classes at the aecl normal France's top university open only to men in her later autobiography Memoirs of a dutiful daughter she recalls the passion and sense of belonging she experienced from intellectual pursuit in October while discipline was closed I spent my days in the b.b. Oh technics you know. From time to time I would look up at the other readers and lean back proudly in my armchair among these specialist scholars researchers and think I felt at home I no longer felt myself rejected by my environment I too was taking part in the effort which humanity makes to know to understand to express itself. I was in gauged in a great connective enterprise which would release me for ever from the bones of loneliness a reading there from Memoirs of a dutiful daughter by Simone de Beauvoir Well another reason why Simone de Beauvoir was was released from the bonds of loneliness as you just heard is that in 1909 she met John Paul Sartre when they were both studying for the agri guess you know the elite French graduate degree in Philosophy at the age of 21 de Beauvoir was the youngest person ever to set the exam and should come 2nd in the entire country Sartre who was 24 came 1st but it was his 2nd attempt at sitting for the exam Lisa just I mean how typical Was it for a woman at that time to be studying in such an environment and at such a high level Well I think not at all I mean even to see months performance the examinations reach Riddick and in fact some of the profs that she was the true philosopher and cloudy and what do we know about the meeting and early times with John Paul Sartre the 1st meeting was there kind of extraordinary he was so attracted to her he asked her for an appointment but cmon said to her sister I cannot go to a meeting if I have not been introduced by someone else to start and I have never been introduced and so she sent her sister Helen instead of her see mine had said to her if you want to recognise art it's very simple it's an ugly man with his glasses so Helen arrives at the tearoom and there are 2 ugly man with the glasses Finally she meets art who is very disappointed Helen goes back c.c. Man in the evening and Sumant says So how did you find him oh not funny at all he was very disappointed that you were not there and of course they finally met and sart had to wonder. All sense of humor and they got together it was quite a feeling they never got married they didn't want to have children and they need it and they wanted freedom so badly Well Lisa the relation they have they refer to as and is sensu love which would accommodate contingent love affairs so what do we know about how this kind of out Well 1st well it came about because they were very young I mean semen was I think all of 21 and South 24 and the idea that even though you absolutely adored the other at that point that you were going to say this was necessarily forever particularly if you were rebellious and adventurous young people both of whom wanted to write was was was not possible the contingent love affairs which are the secondary ones the ones that you're maybe passionate about but you know are not necessarily a lifetime's undertaking there are non essential is something that seem agreed to and I think you know in imagination it was probably 5 and I think initially it was difficult for her to live through this because south of courses as men are and as indeed she said her father was. You know how to take their freedoms with women far more easily than women know how to take them with them and saying which case didn't really suit both parties do you think well I think eventually it probably did I think at 1st there was quite a lot of getting used to if you like suffering difficulty for Simone in this and she was jealous I mean you know Levy to her 1st novel is is a book about jealousy of the other. Well while their relationship was open allowing each to have romances with other people they did vow to be honest about them and de Beauvoir documents one of these relationships in a letter she wrote to sot in 1938 Dear little being. I'm not going to write you a long letter thought I've hundreds of things to tell you because I prefer to tell you them in person on Saturday you should know however one 1st that I love you dearly I'm quite overcome at the thought that out see you this in barking from the train on Saturday carrying your suitcase and my red hat box to you've been very sweet to write me such long letters I'm hoping for another this evening at Annecy 3 something extremely agreeable has happened to me which I didn't at all expect when I left. I slept with a little boast 3 days ago it was I who propositioned him of course both of us had been wanting it we def serious conversations during the day and the evenings would be unbearably oppressive one rainy evening at 18 in a barn lying face down a few inches away from one another we gazed at each other for an hour finding various pretexts to pull off the moment of going to sleep in the end I laughed foolishly and looked at him so he said why are you laughing and I said I'm trying to picture your face if I propositioned you to sleep with me I'm very fond of him. We spend days and nights of passion a letter there written by Simone de Beauvoir to her life partner John Paul Sartre taken from the book Letters to songs from Toby well as a being pointed out Sartre and de Beauvoir very much had a meeting of minds emotionally but also intellectually Now a lot of attention has been given to John Paul Sartre he has been famously acclaimed as the existentialist philosopher and although one never classified herself as a philosopher she was definitely an existentialist think it wasn't she 1st of all before you can go there tell us what existentialism is please if we focus on the version of existentialism one of her most fundamental philosophical ideas instead of freedom and it's also in developing her concept of freedom she expands and develop existentialism and one could say that the most basic assumption in her existentialism in stat human consciousness is free and that we have a free will that enable us to choose and to act and that we are responsible for our acts in addition over as an atheist she does not believe in the x. Instance of God So when you are on as before dust issues that humans are fundamentally free in a godless world it also leads to the idea that purpose and meaning direction over our lives are not given in advance Neither off guard tradition nor nature and this means that every single human being must create their own life and their own meaning we must choose what to do what we would be how to relate to others what projects we will engage in an issue and responsibility for it so in short in. Bourse existentialism freedom is the wellspring of all other values and it's a condition for living meaningful life well they were both existentialist but they were different types of existentialist when the keys but please tell me how they differed well above you are was also concerned about the situation this freedom is i