Written in response to Being and Nothingness, it posits six character types based on their levels of freedom.
This work's second section, titled "Personal Freedom and Others," quotes Descartes in saying that man's unhappiness is due to his first having been a child. It goes on to say that children live in a serious world without being serious themselves, and that some people, such as slaves who are never conscious of their own slavery, live their entire lives in this infantile mindset. Its third section argues that the title aesthetic attitude is a means of withdrawal from contemporary history and that true freedom must be found within oneself. It opens by quoting Montaigne that "The continuous work of our life is to build death." Written in response to Being and Nothingness, it posits six character types based on their levels of freedom. For 10 points, name this 1945 essay that followed its author's "Pyrrhus and Cineas," a work of Simone de Beauvoir.
This work's second section, titled "Personal Freedom and Others," quotes Descartes in saying that man's unhappiness is due to his first having been a child.
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