Moral authenticity requires renouncing possession and being, endlessly.

Evidence

Put into other words, man attains an authentically moral attitude when he renounces being in order to assume his existence; through this conversion he also renounces all possession, because possession is a way of searching for being; but the conversion by which he attains true wisdom is never finished, it has to be made ceaselessly, it demands constant effort. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 317

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the authentically moral attitude as a perpetual conversion renouncing being and possession.
• XREF: connects to: Possession aims at appropriating being-in-itself and symbolically the whole world. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1381; Moral transformation requires grinding away the old self first. — , A Year of World Stories, 11611; Authentic artistry requires self-transcendence, which narcissism precludes — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1818 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• In possession the for-itself seeks to become its own foundation as in-itself #expands (0.90)
• Renouncing ego and control is required for authentic erotic reciprocity. #expands (0.85)
• Morality serves a self-directed ego function of constructing moral identity. #contradicts (0.80) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 546
• Possession is an ideal symbolic relation that no concrete act can fully realize #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1375
• Authenticity is the radical self-recovery that escapes the good-bad faith dichotomy #expands (0.78)
• Moral transformation requires grinding away the old self first. #corroborates (0.75) — , A Year of World Stories, 11611
• A genuinely created being must tear itself free and assume its own being #corroborates (0.75)
• Both aesthetic mood and money-possession liberate the self from resistant reality #contradicts (0.73) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 451
• Authentic artistry requires self-transcendence, which narcissism precludes #complicates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1818
• The wish to be right stems from self-preservation, which philosophy must break down #corroborates (0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 83