Female between Freedom, Self

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The research aims to critique the intellectual foundations of Western feminist philosophy through an analytical and comparative presentation of the perspectives of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler, focusing on the concepts of freedom, self, body, and identity.

 Given the centrality of these concepts in shaping the feminist view of humanity, the researcher compares them with the philosophy of religion's conception of humanity as a spiritual and moral being, thus highlighting the points of convergence and divergence between the two frameworks. Therefore, the researcher employs a comparative, critical, analytical approach to examine these concepts and reveal their theoretical structure, within an analysis that balances the conceptual framework with its philosophical context. 

The researcher concluded that Western feminism reformulated the concepts of freedom and identity through the conception of existential freedom and the social performance of gender, but this theoretical construction, despite its liberating tendencies, may, in some of its manifestations, involve reducing the human being to a single dimension, which opens the way for re-examining the concept of the human being and the limits of its philosophical definition.

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