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The Ethics of Ambiguity

Simone de Beauvoir

Paperback | Pages: 162 pages

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Original Title:	Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté
ISBN:	080650160X (ISBN13: 9780806501604)
Edition Language:	English

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Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer in modern France. A leading exponent of French existentialism, her work complements, though it is independent of, that of her great friend Jean-Paul Sartre. In "The Ethics of Ambiguity," Madame de Beauvoir penetrates at once to the core ethical problems of modern man: what shall he do, how shall he go about making values, in the face of this awareness of the absurdity of his existence? She forces the reader to face the absurdity of the human condition, and then, having done so, proceeds to develop a dialectic of ambiguity which will enable him not to master the chaos, but to create with it.

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Title	:	The Ethics of Ambiguity
Author	:	Simone de Beauvoir
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 162 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2000 by Citadel (first published 1947)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Feminism. Classics. Cultural. France

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Definately the most readable overview of existentialism around, and a good crack at what an existential ethics would mean. She twists herself up in knots trying to cope with Stalinism, but other than that is philosophically consistent in her political approach.

Lhomme est une passion inutile.- Jean-Paul Sartre, LEtre et le Néant (1943) Le propre de toute morale c'est de considérer la vie humaine comme une partie que l'on peut gagner ou perdre, et d'enseigner à l'homme le moyen de gagner.- Simone de Beauvoir, Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté (1947) (*) Any philosophical work is an expression of a culture at a particular moment of time as well as of the individual author's personality and experience. The middle class Parisian intellectuals who produced

"Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolation of an abstract evasion; existentialism proposes no evasion." SdBAs a nascent reader of philosophy I was fatigued by the on-again-off-again lucidity of her discourse, but not enough to quit. The accessibility and meaning of her prose oscillated; for me comprehension ebbed and flowed from page to page. However, the steadfast reader endures, trusting that at some point her heady prose will make sense and then BAM! they do, the proverbial

Six stars...ten stars. An inspiring and well thought out book, a guide for living.

Oh, Simone. You lend thoughtful sobriety to Sartrean and Camus-ian existential whingeing. Frankly though, existentialist writings (in the form of philosophical treatises, NOT novels - in fact, NEVER novels) tire me. This one got a bit tedious - I dislike zigzagging from grandiosity to brutal specifics - but things picked up in the end. Favorite lines: (1) "My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy."(2) "The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity.

It surprised me that I enjoyed this book so much, because normally I can't stand studying ethics. However Simone de Beauvoir made some very strong, valid points in this piece. Having lived through both the world wars and being very involved, along with Sartre, in the French political scene she was able to gain tremendous insight into the ethical dilemmas that come around with any human action on a large scale. The section titled 'The Antimonies of Action' was particularly interesting as she