The oppressed face fewer temptations to bad faith than the privileged
Evidence
On the whole, however, he has fewer temptations of betrayal than the members of the privileged classes because the satisfying of his passions, the taste for adventure, and the satisfactions of social seriousness are denied him. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 89
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Directly maps onto Beauvoir’s typology: sub-man, serious man, and adventurer require material conditions that oppression withholds.
Related
- Liberation appears immediately necessary only to the oppressed (similarity 0.81)