Episode #106 ... Simone De Beauvoir pt. 2 - The Ethics of Ambiguity

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  So last episode, we talked about Sartre's idea that at the foundation of who we are,

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  there's a constant tug of war that's going on between what he calls our facticity and our transcendence.

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  Our facticity, being the facts that are true about us at any given moment,

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  and our transcendence, being the possibilities that we have at our disposal.

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  Last episode, what followed from this, if you're Sartre,

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  is that people are made massively uncomfortable by this constant tug of war that's going on.

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  And we all tend to gravitate towards removing one side of the people pulling on the rope.

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  We either want to ignore the facts that are true about us or the possibilities that we have,

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  so that one side will just fall into the mud pit already, and we can all stop pulling on this stupid rope.

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  But unfortunately, Sartre would say, the game never actually ends.

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  Despite the fact you may view yourself as some sort of completed project,

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  the reality is that through your actions, you are constantly creating and recreating yourself in each passing moment.

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  Every second that passes, you change in some small way.

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