Amartya Sen The Second Sex Analysis
Mariella Sophia S. Lim May 10, 2017
PH102- T
Recognizing Plurality in the Violence against Women
Abstract
Through Amartya Sen’s Identity and Violence and Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, this paper aims to answer the cause of violence against women and how this can be resolved. It uses Amartya Sen’s concept of the violence of illusion and Simone de Beauvoir’s understanding of women as the other to further understand the root of this violence. Amartya Sen’s violence of illusion in which other people are viewed as unidimensional beings, and de Beauvoir’s concept of women always seen as the other is connected through the need of recognizing the plurality of the other. It concludes that when one is unable to recognize the plurality
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Here, the illusion that a person has a singular identity leads to violence against the other person. The violence comes about when we understand and treat human beings as unidimensional beings. In here, there is an epistemic violence in which it is invalidates ways of knowing and invalidates ways of rationality. The violence of illusion is the illusion of a singular identity.
Identity and violence are connected in such a way that the misunderstanding of human identity and its complexity can lead to violence. In his work, he emphasizes that the world is more than a mere federation of religions and civilizations. The allocation of individuals to religions and civilizations cannot be because it has to do with the idea that it is possible to assign people into boxes. Putting people into categories leads people to think that they only exist in that category. In this case, we do not want people to exist in boxes without engagement and interaction with
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