Simone de Beauvoir

Judeo-Christian traditions teach that humans are born with a preordained purpose. Simone de Beauvoir argued that humans are born free and thrown into existence without a divine plan. As Beauvoir acknowledged, this freedom is both a blessing and a burden. in the ethics of ambiguity, she argued that our greatest ethical imperative is to create our own life meaning while protecting the freedom of others to do the same as Beauvoir wrote, “A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom.