Simon de Beauvoir’s “Being-for-(or-with)-Others” Position in Relative to Sartre’s View

Simon de Beauvoir’s “Being-for-(or-with)-Others” Position in Relative to Sartre’s View

Write a 10 page paper (double-spaced) on one of the topics below.

Write a 10 page paper (double-spaced, Times New Roman) on one of the topics below:

* How does de Beauvoir’s understanding of “being-for-(or-with)-others” stand in relation to Sartre’s view?

* How does de Beauvoir’s suggestion that the for-itself should accept and maintain “distance” (with her emphasis on promoting freedom and possibilities), relate to, and affect, Sartre’s diagnosis that the for-itself is an unstable teleology, i.e. is teleological without having an achievable end?

* Does de Beauvoir’s view of freedom, etc. offer resources for overcoming “bad faith” and achieving an authentic human existence?

* Does de Beauvoir’s view offer a motivation that might counter-balance the for-itself’s fundamental project of becoming an in-itself-for-itself?

*Does de Beauvoir offer enough material to suggest an existentialist ethics that would make good on Sartre’s unfulfilled promise to provide one? What would this ethical system look like? What principles of action could be generated from her views on freedom, etc.? How would this address the worry that maintaining an emphasis on subjectivity would necessarily develop into ethical subjectivism?

Use Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity to compare with Sartre’s views in Being and Nothingness. Explain how it complements, corrects, expands upon and clarifies, or makes significant changes to Sartre’s theory.

Everything’s basically in the description. It’s ultimately answering the question with Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity and Sartre’s Being and Nothingness.

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Simone De Beauvoir (1908-1986) and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) are great authors and philosophers of the 20th century. The two were partners and soulmates but never in marriage, and they are buried next to each other. According to Menand (2017, June 19), they were famous as a couple yet with independent lives. The two separately made a significant impact in influencing the concept of self-relative to personal freedom and the world view on commitment and relationships (Dietz et al., 2015, May 21). The significance…
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