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language: french
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  - Bernard Frechtman
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  - Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté
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id: The Ethics of Ambiguity
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title: The Ethics of Ambiguity
author:
  - '[[thoughts/Simone de Beauvoir|Simone de Beauvoir]]'
year: 1947
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  - philosophy
description: Beauvoir develops an existentialist ethics in which accepting human ambiguity and willing one’s own freedom entails responsibility for the freedom of others.
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Originally published in French in 1947. The English translation is by Bernard Frechtman.

Sources: [English edition](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL20017277M/The_ethics_of_ambiguity); [publication history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Ambiguity).