![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This essay argues that Beauvoir’s distinction between moral fault and oppression is fundamental in revealing that a woman does not have complete freedom in choosing her immanent (inauthentic) state in the patriarchal context. In alignment with the existential ethics she outlined in The Ethics of Ambiguity (1948), Beauvoir opposes the Sartrean notion of bad faith, maintaining that the ambiguous existence of human beings ensures the possibility of not only “moral fault”, but also “oppression” (a distinction that I outline below). The introduction of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex in France, 1949, brought the peculiarities of woman’s situation into philosophical inquiry. ![]()
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