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A review by gibles0207
The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
4.0
4.5/5
Did I love this book? Yes! Did i have to listen to a few lectures to make sense of part 2? Also yes. Anyways I really liked Boulevard’s ethical framework and the way she builds it up in a very like systematic way that doesn’t assume any a priori values. Her writing is a bit confusing but that just makes it more exciting when u finally figure out what she’s saying after reading the same page 3 times. Some of the stuff especially in the second part def made me think about my own attitudes at times which is the whole fun of philosophy. For the most part I was pretty sure I agreed with what the results of her ethical framework but it was still cool to read about it in a new way. Definitely will make it a lot easier to explain my thoughts to ppl in the future (see quote 2 god she’s so dope <3).
Fast Quotes
“As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.”
“A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.”
“But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.”
“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence
Did I love this book? Yes! Did i have to listen to a few lectures to make sense of part 2? Also yes. Anyways I really liked Boulevard’s ethical framework and the way she builds it up in a very like systematic way that doesn’t assume any a priori values. Her writing is a bit confusing but that just makes it more exciting when u finally figure out what she’s saying after reading the same page 3 times. Some of the stuff especially in the second part def made me think about my own attitudes at times which is the whole fun of philosophy. For the most part I was pretty sure I agreed with what the results of her ethical framework but it was still cool to read about it in a new way. Definitely will make it a lot easier to explain my thoughts to ppl in the future (see quote 2 god she’s so dope <3).
Fast Quotes
“As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.”
“A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.”
“But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.”
“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence