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The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

The Ethics of Ambiguity Simone de Beauvoir ebook
ISBN: 080650160X, 9780806501604
Format: pdf
Page: 162
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Will the Real Kant please stand up? Review by Sarah Allen, Concordia University. For instance, the quintessential Vietnam cliché is the squad of men patrolling the jungle, looking for Charlie. There is a lot of genius in this essay, but these points are near and dear to me. London & New York: Routledge, 2010; xii + 284 pages. I googled the topic tonight and found one grad student's article trying to reconcile the two -- he used excerpts from Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism (the last chapter) and de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity. Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity presuppose what I will heretofore dub a 'lonely' and autonomous ontology—one, which had already been surmounted in the work of Beauvoir's predecessors (namely Heidegger). Tanja Staehler, Plato and Levinas: The Ambiguous Out-Side of Ethics. Selected Quotes from The Ethics of Ambiguity, by Simone de Beauvoir. *** “THE continuous work of our life,” says Montaigne, “is to build death. The game doesn't capture any of the moral ambiguity of the war.