Grounded, engaged generosity outranks abstract Kantian virtue.

Evidence

Contrary to the formal strictness of Kantianism for whom the more abstract the act is the more virtuous it is, generosity seems to us to be better grounded and therefore more valid the less distinction there is between the other and ourself and the more we fulfill ourself in taking the other as an end. That is what happens if I am engaged in relation to others. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 133

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Contrasts with Kant’s categorical ethics; relevant to the reader’s tracking of whether her freedom-formula is derived or assumed. Here she explicitly grounds obligation in engagement with particular others.