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

Authors

  • Élcio José dos Santos Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR, Curitiba, PR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378634121

Keywords:

Suicide, Suffering, Asceticism

Abstract

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.

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Author Biography

Élcio José dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR, Curitiba, PR

Mestrando em Filosofia pela UFPR.

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Published

2010-12-01

How to Cite

Santos, Élcio J. dos. (2010). Algumas considerações sobre a questão do suicídio na filosofia de Arthur Schopenhauer. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 1(2), 23–32. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378634121

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010): Estudos sobre Schopenhauer – Ed. 02

Section

Moral and denial of the will

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