In Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity, Beauvoir characterizes oppression has having at least two characteristics: 1)

In The Ethics of Ambiguity, Beauvoir casts her own light on the situation of human existence--neither god nor thing, we live as liminal creatures who often find themselves drawn to one or the other end of this pole. Sartre, of course, names that desire--longing to be either god (for Sartre, pure transcendence, absolute subjectivity) or thing (pure immanence, absolute objectivity)--bad faith. For Sartre, the temptations of bad faith are numerous, nearly ubiquitous, and it becomes difficult to see how we are anything but damned, or how a meaningful social existence is possible. Beauvoir is similarly wary of bad faith. Her Ethics of Ambiguity operates within a Sartrean ontological framework, but for her the trap of bad faith is not inevitable: she distinguishes the desire to disclose being from the wish to possess or coincide with the object of desire. According to both Sartre and Beauvoir, projects of bad faith fundamentally aim at fleeing our freedom. We pursue it in order to mollify an

In The Ethics of Ambiguity, Beauvoir casts her own light on the situation of human existence--neither god nor thing, we live as liminal creatures who often find themselves drawn to one or the other end of this pole. Sartre, of course, names that desire--longing to be either god (for Sartre, pure transcendence, absolute subjectivity) or thing (pure immanence, absolute objectivity)--bad faith. For Sartre, the temptations of bad faith are numerous, nearly ubiquitous, and it becomes difficult to see how we are anything but damned, or how a meaningful social existence is possible. Beauvoir is simil