Beauvoir rejected Kantian respect as an inadequate moral guide
Evidence
In Pyrrhus et Cinéas, Beauvoir criticizes Kant, arguing that “respect for the human person is not generally suffi cient to guide us” (PC, 91). An executioner and his victim are both full human beings, yet we cannot support both: we must decide whether we let the victim perish or kill the executioner (PC, 91). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 479
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Sartre’s invented-value ethics lacks the general evaluative power of Kantian universalization — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 188; Beauvoir rejected Kantian ethics for presupposing a closed voluntarist circularity — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 428; Beauvoir rejects both Kantian duty and Marxist necessity as decision grounds — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 480 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Beauvoir’s ethics derive moral obligations from interdependent transcendence
#expands(0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 578 - Beauvoir’s ethic of treating others as freedoms parallels Kant’s humanity formula
#complicates(0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 202 - Grounded, engaged generosity outranks abstract Kantian virtue.
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