Beauvoir diverges from early Sartre by allowing reflective endorsement to justify specific values.

Evidence

It would be appropriate to show, here in the conclusion, how Beauvoir moves well beyond Sartre’s analysis of unjustifi ed specifi c values, which she does. (According to Beauvoir, specifi c values are unjustifi ed only in their original constitution but not aft er refl ective endorsement. Consequently, contra the early Sartre, not all specifi c values are necessarily unjustifi ed, not all original values can be justifi ed, and, above all, not all actions can be performed authentically. Th us, the consequences of inauthenticity are greater than merely indicating a logical contradiction. Th e positing of transcendent values that tacitly contradict freedom undercuts the possibility of justifi cation and renders life absurd. Th ose who wish to live an existentially coherent life must will intersubjective freedom.) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 218

Categorization

• XREF: Crucial evidence for the reader’s core historiographical project: charts where Beauvoir’s ethics departs from early Sartre on value justification.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does early Sartre truly hold that all specific values are unjustified, and at which text is this position strongest?