There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
Use itGS4: conscience as the ultimate guide in ethical dilemmas.
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Simone de Beauvoir quotes for UPSC
7 sourced quotes by Simone de Beauvoir on compassion & empathy, women & gender, ethics & morality, economy, development & poverty, mind & self-awareness, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Use itGS4: true generosity gives all and feels no cost.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
— Simone de BeauvoirConclusion, p. 541
Use itEssay on meaning: life has value when we value others' lives.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Use itEssay intro on gender as social construct.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
— Simone de BeauvoirBk. I, Pt. 2, Ch. 8: Since the French Revolution: the Job and the Vote, p. 133
Use itEssay on gender: genius is made, and women's situation blocks that becoming.
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
— Simone de BeauvoirConclusion, p. 543
Use itGS1 on ageing and youth: society values individuals only when profitable.
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
— Simone de BeauvoirIntroduction : Woman as Other
Use itGS4: acknowledge inherent bias when approaching human problems.