Theory Of Moral Anxiety

Anxiety is one kind of modern people's mental condition. When anxiety happens in the moral domain, the people will experience the puzzle. This puzzle is one kind of wickedness, which will endanger to the human's health and happiness. Therefore to analyzes this question thoroughly, and inquired about the alleviation countermeasures already have became a very urgent duty.Freud proposed the moral anxiety as an official concept, and considered it as a kind of good. In fact anxiety itself is incompatible, it is the mixture of good and evil. Therefore, we can regard the moral anxiety as a kind of evil. As an evil, moral anxiety can be defined as following. When a person judges about the danger moral environment and the incomplete situation of his morals according to his conscience, he become worried, restless, dreads and so on. The complexity of moral anxiety embody in its four aspects of characteristics. In order to grasp this complex mood, it is necessary to introduce the theories of anxiety in various disciplines.Because anxiety is a typical self-awareness mood, therefore the moral anxiety also surely concern with moral self-awareness. The conscience is the internal psychic mechanism in which the moral anxiety will occur. The conscience is the collector of different sounds, it has contained the god sound, remote ancestor's sound and the important other people's sound. David. Riesman's theory had proven in history, the people are always maintaining sensitivity to the inner one kind of sound or many kinds of sounds. Whether in the history of ethics or in the personality structure, conscience occupied a high situation. It has the right of self-control, supervision and punishment.The advent of modernity takes great shocks to many kinds of ethical relationship, such as human beings and God, man and ancestors, as well as the ethical relationship between people and other people. A variety of external sound becomes dull is the external reasons to make people suffered moral anxiety. The voice in conscience in the state of conflicting and irrational is the internal reasons of moral anxiety. Existentialist Philosophy, psychoanalysis, and modernity researchers have found a lot of measures to alleviating anxiety, which can provide a very useful reference to ease moral anxiety. After all, the moral anxiety and anxiety have some differences, it is also necessary to find some appropriate mitigation measures from ethical point of view. According to ethical relationships and the characteristics of moral cognitive, some measures can be used to alleviate the moral anxieties, such as found the meaning, develop trust, foster tolerance as well as the integration of personality.