1 Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity. Ambiguity and Freedom.

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Simone de Beauvoir is one of existentialism’s leading figures. In The Ethics of Ambiguity published in 1947, profoundly affected by the traumas of World War II and the occupation of France, she explores the various contradictions that beset the human condition, what she terms ambiguity, and how accepting our ambiguous condition suggests an ethics of freedom, to disclose the world and further the freedom of others. The book makes sense of how we can still live a good life, a moral life, despite the state of abandonment we find ourselves in. I found it worthwhile to study the book in detail and hence I present to you a series of videos breaking down each chapter, so that we can follow her argument and thesis to thoroughly understand what an ethics for an existentialist resembles.

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947). Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1949.

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