Error itself is the abortive movement through which a person asserts freedom.
Evidence
What makes the problem so complex is that, on the one hand, one must not make himself an accomplice of that flight from freedom that is found in heedlessness, caprice, mania, and passion, and that, on the other hand, it is the abortive movement of man toward being which is his very existence, it is through the failure which he has assumed that he asserts himself as a freedom. To want to prohibit a man from error is to forbid him to fulfill his own existence, it is to deprive him of life. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 129
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Explains why prohibiting error is existential deprivation: the failed movement toward being is how freedom asserts itself.