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The Ethics of Ambiguity Simone de Beauvoir
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*** “THE continuous work of our life,” says Montaigne, “is to build death. Beauvoir's method incorporated various political and ethical dimensions. There is a lot of genius in this essay, but these points are near and dear to me. By a philosophy of unfixedness, one can strive against amoral nihilism while accounting for radically various perspectives and consciousnesses, which stem from radically free subjectivities. Whether it is realistic science explaining humanoid life throughout the galaxy, or dealing with FTL travel, or the ethical ambiguity of progress, or even the very purpose of the human race in our universe, Mass Effect has got it. Could an organization's ethics program hinder rather than enhance an employee's ethical behavior? Ambiguity is a pervasive concern in leadership as in business ethics. Selected Quotes from The Ethics of Ambiguity, by Simone de Beauvoir. €�The child's situation,” she writes in The Ethics of Ambiguity, “is characterized by his finding himself cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish. Killing an old innocent lady would not create meaning for me. Could an ethics program actually weaken employee skills for handling ambiguous ethical situations? Beauvoir echoes Sartre's notion that existence precedes essence. In 1947, Beauvoir published an ethical treatise, Pour une Morale de l'Ambiguïté (The Ethics of Ambiguity), one of the best examples of a treatise on existentialist ethics.