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

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Simone de Beauvoir

Paperback | Pages: 162 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 4599 Users | 195 Reviews

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

I dont know what de Beauvoir Id saying half the time, but when I do know what shes saying blows my mind.



When I read dense philosophy, I usually read it twice. The first time I read it all the way through quickly, as if I were reading fiction, in order to pick up the main ideas. The second time, I read it more closely, which takes longer, but I'm able to then probe deeper and gain a more full understanding of the work. I'm on the second phase with this book.

This is a good companion to Sartre's Being and Nothingness as it simplifies and abbreviates B & N while using it as a reference throughout. There is much use of philosophical terminology that can stump you if you weren't a philosophy major. Overall it sheds some light on the morals of man, the reasoning behind war / war crimes and the true definition of freedom. Although written several decades ago, the references and comparisons have eerie similarities to our current political times.

The term "existentialism" has been, like "postmodern" or "hipster," so stretched to death that it has long since stopped meaning anything at all. But Simone de Beauvoir makes a good go of trying to fit the ethics of an existentialist age-- one defined, not by meaninglessness as is so often presupposed as ambiguity-- into a more comprehensive framework for understanding the world. She finds herself, in true existentialist fashion, developing more questions than answers, and more negations and

I love this woman. Her particular understanding of modern femininity, the world of the second world war, existentialism, fascism, humor, and the obscurity of our common anxieties.