Viewing human life in terms of externality means denying transcendence: forgetting about one’s capacity for willful change and improvement. Viewing human life in terms of internality or will is equivalent to “losself in” transcendence, or defining oneself through one’s fantasies and not one’s realities. Here, she re-explains this in terms of transcendence, which essentially means overcoming one’s current self and becoming something new. In contrast, she proposes seeing ambiguity as the solution and not the problem. De Beauvoir has criticized most philosophy for trying to eliminate ambiguity, or define people solely through their will or their world (their “pure inwardness or pure externality”).
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