The adventurer’s fault is denying that his subjectivity necessarily transcends toward others

Evidence

Thus, the adventurer devises a sort of moral behavior because he assumes his subjectivity positively. But if he dishonestly refuses to recognize that this subjectivity necessarily transcends itself toward others, he will enclose himself in a false independence which will indeed be servitude. To the free man he will be only a chance ally in whom one can have no confidence; he will easily become an enemy. His fault is believing that one can do something for oneself without others and even against them. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 64

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Crisp statement of the adventurer’s defining error, useful for sorting real people into the typology.

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