The Ethics of Ambiguity
Ranked #18 in Existentialism, Ranked #45 in Ethics — see more rankings.
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 Jean-Paul Sartre. In "The Ethics of Ambiguity," Madame de Beauvoir penetrates at once to the central 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... more
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The Ethics of Ambiguity is ranked in the following categories:
- #91 in Existential
- #46 in Free Will
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