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Episode: Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de Beauvoir
Description: Podcast: Close Readings (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de BeauvoirPub date: 2025-09-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAt the heart of human existence is a tragic ambiguity: the fact that we experience ourselves both as subject and object, internal and external, at the same time, and can never fully inhabit either state. In her 1947 book, Simone de Beauvoir addresses the ethical implications of this uncertainty and the ‘agonising evidence of freedom’ it present...