Moral anxiety is intrinsic to existence, not imposed from outside
Evidence
Moral anxiety does not come to man from without; he finds within himself the anxious question, “What’s the use?” Or, to put it better, he himself is this urgent interrogation. He flees it only by fleeing himself, and as soon as he exists he answers. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 75
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- XREF: Connects to Heidegger’s Geworfenheit and Sartre’s facticity — the thrownness that grounds the interrogation.