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The Ethics of Ambiguity

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The Ethics of Ambiguity (French: Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté) is Simone de Beauvoir's second major non-fiction work. It was prompted by a lecture she gave in 1945, after which she claimed that it was impossible to base an ethical system on her partner Jean-Paul Sartre's major philosophical work Being and Nothingness (French: L'Être et le néant). The following year, over a six-month period, she took on the challenge, publishing the resulting text first as installments in Les Temps modernes and then, in November 1947, as a book.

The Ethics of Ambiguity - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Book by Simone de Beauvoir This article may contain original research . Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( June 2026 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) First English-language edition published by Philosophical Library in 1948. This version is translated by Bernard Frechtman. The Ethics of Ambiguity ( French : Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté ) is Simone de Beauvoir 's second major non-

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