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  • Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Finite Individuals and Totalities - Sadler's Lectures

    Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Finite Individuals and Totalities - Sadler's Lectures
    Mar 10 2026
    This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on her discussion in the section "The Present And The Future", which centers on the notion of totalities like humanity, the universe, and history, which turn out to be "detotalized totalities", having their meaning for and through finite individuals To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity - amzn.to/32IbKya
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    16 mins
  • Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Ambiguity Of The Future - Sadler's Lectures

    Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Ambiguity Of The Future - Sadler's Lectures
    Mar 9 2026
    This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on her discussion in the section "The Present And The Future", which looks at the two different interpretations of what "future" means. One of these maintains continuity with the present and involves a continual transcendence of it. The other displaces the meaning of the present to a future which justifies whatever one does or has done in the present. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity - amzn.to/32IbKya
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    15 mins
  • Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Sacrifice, Usefulness, and Human Beings

    Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Sacrifice, Usefulness, and Human Beings
    Mar 8 2026
    This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on her discussion at the end of the section "The Antinomies Of Action", which looks at the willingness of some people to justify sacrificing others for the sake of some conception of usefulness or utility in achieving some value they view as transcendent. De Beauvoir argues that "useful" is not an absolute term, and that one has to clarify the end that one is claiming justifies the sacrifice. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity - https://amzn.to/32IbKya
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    15 mins
  • Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Contempt For Humanity And For Individuals

    Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Contempt For Humanity And For Individuals
    Mar 7 2026
    This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on the contempt for both humanity as a whole and for individual human beings that is displayed by some people in the use of their own freedom. She notes that this generally involves the reduction of persons to things, taking away their transcendence and viewing them only in their facticity or immanence. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity - https://amzn.to/32IbKya
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    17 mins
  • Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - The Paradox Of Action For Humans - Sadler's Lectures

    Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - The Paradox Of Action For Humans - Sadler's Lectures
    Mar 5 2026
    This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on what she calls the "paradox of action" which imposes itself upon human beings, which is "no action can be generated for man without it being immediately generated against men". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity - https://amzn.to/32IbKya
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    12 mins
  • Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Conservatives' Sophisms About Freedom

    Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Conservatives' Sophisms About Freedom
    Mar 4 2026
    This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on what she terms "sophisms", that is plausible but ultimately bad arguments, that conservatives make about freedom in order to justify remaining in and even reinforcing situations of oppression from which they benefit. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity - https://amzn.to/32IbKya
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    14 mins
  • Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - The Situation Of Oppression - Sadler's Lectures

    Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - The Situation Of Oppression - Sadler's Lectures
    Mar 3 2026
    This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on what she terms the "situation of oppression", which divides the human world into camps or clans. The oppressed can make use of their freedom to revolt against a harmony from which they are excluded, while those benefitting from oppression often frame it in terms of a "natural condition". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity - https://amzn.to/32IbKya
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    15 mins
  • Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Constructive Human Activities - Sadler's Lectures

    Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Constructive Human Activities - Sadler's Lectures
    Mar 1 2026
    This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on her discussion of several main areas of what she calls "constructive human activities", namely philosophy, art, science, and technics (technology and techniques) and how they figure into the uses of human freedom. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity - https://amzn.to/32IbKya
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    17 mins