Anguish is rare despite freedom being a permanent human structure.
Evidence
Anguish then is the reflective apprehension of freedom by itself. … Anguish is opposed to the mind of the serious man who apprehends values in terms of the world and who resides in the reassuring, materialistic substantiation of values. In the serious mood I define myself in terms of the object by pushing aside a priori as impossible all enterprises in which I am not engaged at the moment; the meaning which my freedom has given to the world, I apprehend as coming from the world and constituting my obligations. In anguish I apprehend myself at once as totally free and as not being able to derive the meaning of the world except as coming from myself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 253 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The supposed intuition of freedom is a constructed evasion of anguish; Anguish is freedom’s self-apprehension, opposed to the serious man’s faith in external values — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 253; Freedom precedes essence and is indistinguishable from being human — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 226 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- The supposed intuition of freedom is a constructed evasion of anguish
#contradicts(0.85) - Anguish is freedom’s self-apprehension, opposed to the serious man’s faith in external values
#complicates(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 253 - Freedom precedes essence and is indistinguishable from being human
#expands(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 226 - Self-deceiving freedom is the most deeply human condition
#contradicts(0.80)