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A review by mai_books27
The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
This book was a gift from my aunt and came annotated. I'm saying this so my bias is clear, and so we can all understand just how much these pages mean to me. Anyway, Instead of giving a useful review, here is a (mostly unedited) copy of the text I sent my aunt directly after finishing it.
"Hi! I finally got around to reading the Simone de Beauvoir treatise you gave me for graduation, and you were correct…. It was incredible. The power and optimism it expressed while referring to the darkness of the recent past and the terror of the unknown deeply moved me. The idea of acting for something/in the name of something but still demanding justification for those “good” actions in the present is such an interesting lens, and one i believe in wholeheartedly. She articulated such a unique, yet unmistakably truthful, connection between the finite and the infinite. It wasn’t a “nothing matters” existentialism, but an “EVERYTHING MATTERS” existentialism, and it was therefore exponentially more powerful! I loved how this took Hegelian philosophy, totally dunked on it, but still gave me that warm fuzzy feeling. Thank you so much for introducing this work to me..."
"Hi! I finally got around to reading the Simone de Beauvoir treatise you gave me for graduation, and you were correct…. It was incredible. The power and optimism it expressed while referring to the darkness of the recent past and the terror of the unknown deeply moved me. The idea of acting for something/in the name of something but still demanding justification for those “good” actions in the present is such an interesting lens, and one i believe in wholeheartedly. She articulated such a unique, yet unmistakably truthful, connection between the finite and the infinite. It wasn’t a “nothing matters” existentialism, but an “EVERYTHING MATTERS” existentialism, and it was therefore exponentially more powerful! I loved how this took Hegelian philosophy, totally dunked on it, but still gave me that warm fuzzy feeling. Thank you so much for introducing this work to me..."