Simone de Beauvoir is known as a journalist, women’s rights activist, academic, and a philosopher. She was born in Paris, France, in 1908 and later on died in 1986. She was married to Jean-Paul Sartre who is an intellectual and a philosopher like her. Simone de Beauvoir has written a few works but this essay is going to be focused on her second major non-fiction work, which is called, “The Ethics of Ambiguity”.
What are ethics and ambiguity? Ethics is the moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity while ambiguity can be defined as not having one obvious meaning or interpretation. So how can we relate human existence to ambiguity? According to Shannon Mussett, a professor of philosophy mentioned, “In The Ethics of Ambiguity, she developed an existentialist ethics that condemned the “spirit of seriousness” in which people too readily identify with certain abstractions at the expense of individual freedom and responsibility.” Simone de Beauvoir divided her work into three parts. The three parts are ambiguity and freedom, personal freedom and others, and the positive aspects of ambiguity.
In the first part of Ambiguity and Freedom, Simone de Beauvoir talks about the ambiguity of existence and the maximization of freedom. She kind of agrees with Sartre …show more content…
So if someone believes that violence and murdering people is the right thing to do, and if existence truly precedes essence then how can I say that belief is wrong since it is the job of an individual to create their own values and meaning to life? While Sartre believes that man (human beings) is condemned to be free, Simone de Beauvoir believes that we create meaning in our lives due to the fact that we are condemned to freedom and we can make practically any choice we
What are ethics and ambiguity? Ethics is the moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity while ambiguity can be defined as not having one obvious meaning or interpretation. So how can we relate human existence to ambiguity? According to Shannon Mussett, a professor of philosophy mentioned, “In The Ethics of Ambiguity, she developed an existentialist ethics that condemned the “spirit of seriousness” in which people too readily identify with certain abstractions at the expense of individual freedom and responsibility.” Simone de Beauvoir divided her work into three parts. The three parts are ambiguity and freedom, personal freedom and others, and the positive aspects of ambiguity.
In the first part of Ambiguity and Freedom, Simone de Beauvoir talks about the ambiguity of existence and the maximization of freedom. She kind of agrees with Sartre …show more content…
So if someone believes that violence and murdering people is the right thing to do, and if existence truly precedes essence then how can I say that belief is wrong since it is the job of an individual to create their own values and meaning to life? While Sartre believes that man (human beings) is condemned to be free, Simone de Beauvoir believes that we create meaning in our lives due to the fact that we are condemned to freedom and we can make practically any choice we