The Ethics of Ambiguity

The Ethics of Ambiguity

"The Ethics of Ambiguity" (French title: "Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté") is Simone de Beauvoir's second major essay, nearly twice as long as her first, "Pyrrhus and Cineas". After giving a lecture in 1945, she found herself claiming that it was possible to base an ethic upon the foundations of Sartre's "L'Etre et le Néant", and a year later she took up the challenge, taking some six months over the task and publishing the text first in installments in "Les Temps modernes", then as a book in November 1947.


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