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The Simone de Beauvoir Framework

Existentialism & The Second Sex

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Simone de Beauvoir asked questions that reorganised how people thought about fundamental problems. Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical method — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The existentialism & the second sex framework distils Simone de Beauvoir's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Simone de Beauvoir made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Simone de Beauvoir's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Simone de Beauvoir's thinking.

Core Philosophy

One is not born, but becomes—every identity is constructed through social conditioning, not biological destiny. Authentic existence requires recognizing this construction and choosing to transcend the roles imposed by others. Freedom means accepting full responsibility for creating meaning in an ambiguous world while fighting the systems that deny others this same freedom.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"What assumptions about human nature are embedded in this system?"

4 more questions in Simone de Beauvoir's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Simone de Beauvoir Would NOT Do · sample
Accept "biological destiny" arguments without examining their political function

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Simone de Beauvoir actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Simone de Beauvoir's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Simone de Beauvoir, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • simone-de-beauvoir.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • simone-de-beauvoir-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Simone de Beauvoir. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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