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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	:	Deluxe 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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It is indeed a tour de force on de Beauvoir's part to succeed in turning the absurdity of the human condition into a dialectic of ambiguity which proposes that "we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite." This book is actually a very uplifting and liberating book which does not propose an evasion from our human condition but a way to transcend it.

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

This is a reread. Just as good and just as difficult as the first time I read it! Review eventually.



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.

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

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.