Simone de Beauvoir · Philosophy

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Where Sartre left an ethics promised but unwritten, Beauvoir delivered one. Her <em>Ethics of Ambiguity</em> (1947) builds a moral philosophy on the very ambiguity of the human condition - that we are both free transcendence and limited facticity, both sovereign subject and object in the world - and argues that to will my own freedom is to will the freedom of all.

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You learned that Beauvoir&rsquo;s Ethics of Ambiguity grounds morality in the ambiguous human condition (free yet limited, subject yet object) and argues that genuinely willing my own freedom commits me to willing the freedom of others. Explain the &lsquo;ambiguity,&rsquo; why she refuses to flee it, and how freedom b…

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