From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy…

Simone de Beauvoir
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From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. ✨ Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism, p.62, Open Road Media
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1953). The sec … ▶
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