To demonstrate this second point, Arp compares The Ethics of Ambiguity with The Second Sex, arguing convincingly that Beauvoir's emphasis in the former on moral freedom offers a better framework for a specifically sexually based analysis of oppression, given that the oppressed lack what Arp names the "power" to achieve moral freedom (120). Further, this "conception of a specifically moral level of freedom has an important contribution to make to theorizing oppression in general and women's oppression in particular" (145). Arp argues that in The Ethics of Ambiguity Beauvoir distinguishes Sartre's ontological freedom from her own theory of moral freedom.
Indeed, moral freedom is an innovative idea, and Arp's clearly written explication and elaboration of Beauvoir's concept is well thought through and philosophically innovative in its own right. Building on Beauvoir's ethical framework by examining the philosopher's earlier essays and literary works, but concentrating primarily on Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity, Arp discovers what she calls "Beauvoir's innovative conception of moral freedom" (151). In her recently published book, The Bonds of Freedom, Kristina Arp finds in the work of Simone de Beauvoir grounds to put "existentialist ethics on a sound philosophical footing" (152). Chicago and La Salle, IL: Open Court Press, 2001. The Bonds of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir's Existentialist Ethics. Simone de Beauvoir's Existentialist Ethics Cynthia Gayman The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 17.4 (2003) 287-292 In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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