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Ambiguity
In de Beauvoir's existentialism, ambiguity refers to the fundamental condition of human existence in which consciousness is simultaneously free and situated, capable of transcendence yet always embedded in a concrete social and bodily reality.
Moral responsibility
Moral responsibility is the status of being worthy of praise or blame for one's actions, typically requiring that the agent acted freely, with knowledge of what they were doing, and with the capacity to have done otherwise.
Situated freedom
For de Beauvoir, situated freedom is the recognition that human freedom is never abstract or unlimited but always exercised from within a particular social, historical, and bodily situation that shapes its possibilities.