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Pyrrhus and Cineas (original title: Pyrrhus et Cinéas) is Simone de Beauvoir's first philosophical essay. It was published in 1944, and in it, she makes a philosophical inquiry into the human situation by way of analogy from the story of when Pyrrhus was asked by his friend Cineas what his plans were after conquering his next empire.
Aug 17, 2004 · Pyrrhus and Cinéas: Radical Freedom and the Other. Pyrrhus and Cinéas (1944), published one year after She Came To Stay, is Beauvoir’s first philosophical essay. It addresses fundamental ethical and political issues, such as: What are the criteria of ethical action?
Pyrrhus and Cineas is Simone de Beauvoir’s first philosophical essay. It was published in 1944, and in it, she makes a philosophical inquiry into the human situation by way of analogy from the story of when Pyrrhus was asked by his friend Cineas what his plans were after conquering his next empire.
Cineas (flourished 3rd century bc) was a Thessalian who served as chief adviser to Pyrrhus, king of Epirus in Greece. In 281, Cineas attempted, without success, to dissuade Pyrrhus from invading Italy. After Pyrrhus defeated the Romans at Heraclea in Lucania (280), Cineas was sent to Rome to negotiate a peace.
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Sep 22, 2009 · Pyrrhus et Cinéas and Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté constitute Simone de Beauvoir's early philosophical works, prior to the publication of Le Deuxième Sexe in 1949. Yet, until relatively recently, most critics have tended to regard them as derivative of Sartre's L'Etre et le néant.
- Ursula Tidd
- 1999
Jul 29, 2017 · Citing Literature. Summary Beauvoir's essay “Pyrrhus and Cineas” serves as an excellent introduction to existentialism for students. People today still try to bring meaning to their lives in the ways she examines: th...
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The notion that the creation of a meaning to existence is inextricably tied to an ethical response to the other is addressed by de Beauvoir in the philosophical essay Pyrrhus and Cinéas and again in The Ethics of Ambiguity.
