“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.”
Beauvoir eases the existentialism philosophy by advocating for personal freedom free from all other external pressures. She asserts that absolute freedom is attained by maintaining ideas fundamental to the individual. Our choices are ours and external influences act as tools rather than indicators of the decisions to make. The statement thus expresses the source of meaning and essence is the personal freedom that we choose to maintain as an individual.
“Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.”
She asserts that man is fundamentally free to make choices but not as an aim to dismiss the ambiguity of existence. She affirms that doubt is a necessary trait in humanity because we begin from nothingness and must pave the way. Therefore risks have to be taken in the path of realizing and seeking to understand. The ultimate freedom and conscious choice of realizing are vital despite the ambiguity of our existence.
