To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision: simone de beauvoir and the ethics of ambiguity
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Simone de Beauvoir; Ethics; Ambiguity; Situation; Liberation.Abstract
This paper aims to present the ethical thinking of Simone de Beauvoir as it is exposed in her book Pour une morale de l'ambiguité. In this book, the author retakes her understanding of the human existence given in her previous text, Pyrrhus et Cinéas, unfolding better her analysis and presenting an ambiguous ethical principle as universal and singular at the same time from which an ethics consistent with human existence would be outlined. Thus, we will seek to characterize properly how Simone de Beauvoir understands this ethics of ambiguity, fundamentally from the comprehension of the affirmation that "to will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision".
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