Simone de Beauvoir

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In Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) Simone de Beauvoir offers a lucid and accessible ethics based on existentialism. At the center of this ethics are assumptions about a good will, the social character of people and love and the claim that nothing is good or bad, useful or useless per se; there are no external justifications for whatever ethics people have. Beauvoir argues that only the individual can lay the basis for her existence, and illustrates this crucial premise with a quote from the French essayist Michel Montaigne (1533-92) in the very beginning of her essay: “Life it self is neither good nor evil. It is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.”

The Ethics of Ambiguity

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In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953. "One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should ...," she says in this comprehensive treatise on women. She weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a host of other disciplines to show women's place in the world and to postulate on the power of sexuality. This is a powerful piece of writing in a time before "feminism" was even a phrase, much less a movement.

The Second Sex

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Le Deuxième Sexe: Tome I	Le Deuxième Sexe: Tome II

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