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Title: The Ethics of Ambiguity
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Category: Philosophy & Big Ideas
What if there's no preordained purpose, no cosmic plan—so why be ethical at all? Sam and Sophie sit with that question, the one Simone de Beauvoir tackles in The Ethics of Ambiguity, written in the shadow of World War II.
They walk through her core idea that we're ambiguous creatures—both…
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