Simone De Beauvoir: The Ambiguity Of Human Life

In the first place , Simone de Beauvoir describes ambiguity (human ways of thinking about life) through the following categories: nihilism, cynicism, humorism, seriousness and adventurism. In the light of “ existentialism” de Beauvoir makes an implication that there is no difference between philosophy and life. In like manner, she's also aware there are wrong turns that can be taken through the journey of questioning one’s own life. For instance,one way to face ambiguity of human life is “nihilism” this can be described as the drawing for obliviousness at the same time turning everything into an objection, lacking importance or significance as well as the exclusion of all values. Again “nihilism” is the view that nothing really matters, which

Nevertheless, de Beauvoir believed there was way of denying the ambiguity of human life that happened more commonly, she named it “seriousness”. As an illustration de de Beauvoir believed that this was common since we began life as children. Moreover, as children we come to a universe that has been established before us. Accordingly, we also look up to our parents as “divine” beings, and we always look for their approval in all things that we perform. Then, as we get older we have rules that limit our human instincts because we solely believe that we are “adults” and have to behave with maturity. With a similar sense of mistake there is “adventurism”, on the contrary to “seriousness” where life has many limitations, in “adventurism” life has no limits and one can explore concepts even if it is at the expense of human values. Furthermore, we have seen “adventurism” that works closely with violence cause many of humanities despairs such as the; holocaust, slave trade,