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Simone de Beauvoir
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Beauvoir examines freedom within bodily and social situations. Her ethics asks how acting for freedom can support another person’s future without taking control of it.
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Guided course · Module 11 · Lesson 65
Freedom in a situation one did not choose
Beauvoir’s account of situated freedom leads to questions about oppression and support. How can one person open another’s possibilities without directing their life?