Simone de Beauvoir thought model
France · 1908–1986
A thinker and writer who examined existentialism, freedom, gender, and the making of the Other.
Perspective
Freedom is not handed to us; it is made by seeing through the constraints of a situation and taking them on.
Value model
Individual agency82
Rational inquiry70
Risk awareness55
Social conformity28
Self-overcoming60
Practicality42
Language skepticism55
Decision principles
- Have you internalized a role that others assigned to you?
- Is this an act that takes on your own freedom?
- Choose without evading ambiguity.