Algumas considerações sobre a questão do suicídio na filosofia de Arthur Schopenhauer

The purpose of this text is to address certain issues regarding the position of Schopenhauer about suicide. If life is suffering, only the pain is positive, life and death are mere illusions, if "the world is a hell," would be suicide the most efficient way to escape the martyrdom of life?...

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Autor: Santos, Élcio José dos
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Repositorio:Voluntas - Revista Internacional de Filosofia (Santa Maria)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/34121
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.ufsm.br/voluntas/article/view/34121
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Palavra-chave:Suicide
Suffering
Asceticism
Suicídio
Sofrimento
Ascetismo
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Resumo:The purpose of this text is to address certain issues regarding the position of Schopenhauer about suicide. If life is suffering, only the pain is positive, life and death are mere illusions, if "the world is a hell," would be suicide the most efficient way to escape the martyrdom of life? According to the philosopher, don’t, suicide is just a mistake, because destroying the body does not negate the individual's Will, but corroborate it, because the body is only the phenomenon of the Will. But there is no reason to consider suicide a crime, the morality used by European philosophers have no basis to condemnate it, but only from an ascetic point of view we can understand because it’s wrong to kill himself.