![]() ![]() ![]() It remains a concise yet thorough examination of existence and what it means to be human. The Ethics of Ambiguity is the book that launched Simone de Beauvoir's feminist and existential philosophy. Ultimately, de Beauvoir argues that in order to achieve true freedom, one must battle against the choices and activities of those who suppress it. ![]() De Beauvoir outlines a series of "ways of being" (the adventurer, the passionate person, the lover, the artist, and the intellectual), each of which overcomes the former's deficiencies, and therefore can live up to the responsibilities of freedom. ![]() As factic, we are constrained by physical limits, social barriers and the expectations and political power of others. As free, we have the ability to take note of ourselves and choose what to do. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in existentialism carry with them certain ethical responsibilities. The ambiguity is that each of us is both subject and object, freedom and facticity. From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. ![]()
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