by Simone de Beauvoir
Beauvoir responds to critics who charged existentialism with moral nihilism by constructing an ethics grounded in human freedom and its inherent ambiguity. She argues that because we are both subject and object, both free and situated, genuine ethical action requires willing the freedom of others alongside our own.
In this collection, The Ethics of Ambiguity references 4 other books.
It draws on Existentialism Is a Humanism, The Myth of Sisyphus and Beyond Good and Evil.
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Beauvoir's book responds directly to Sartre's Existentialism Is a Humanism and Being and Nothingness, constructing the ethics that Sartre's ontology implied but had not yet articulated
Shares with Camus's Myth of Sisyphus the postwar existentialist project of grounding meaning and ethics in a world without God
Beauvoir engages explicitly with Nietzsche among the influences she names alongside Hegel, Heidegger, Spinoza, and Kierkegaard
Her account of virtue as situated freedom extends Aristotle's framework of ethics as practical wisdom grounded in concrete action
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