In The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir sets out the way in which her ethics is and the way in which it is not individualistic, stating in part that it is individualistic “if one mean

In The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir sets out the way in which her ethics is and the way in which it is not individualistic, stating in part that it is individualistic “if one means by that it accords to the individual an absolute value and that it recognizes in him alone the power of laying the foundations of his own existence …” but that “it is not solipsistic, since the individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals …” (141). Explain the account she gives here of the ways in which her ethics is and is not individualistic. Is this a viable account of the role individualism can play in ethics? Why or why not?