Beauvoir rejects both Kantian duty and Marxist necessity as decision grounds

Evidence

Neither pre-given ethical imperatives (which the Kantian autonomous self claims freely to follow), nor claims about the necessary course of History (beloved by certain deterministic Marxists) may justify our decisions. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 480

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 rejected Kantian respect as an inadequate moral guide — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 479 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir rejected Kantian respect as an inadequate moral guide #corroborates (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 479
• Beauvoir grounds anguish in forced choice without external justification #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 480
• Beauvoir’s ethics derive moral obligations from interdependent transcendence #qualifies (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 578