Abstract
This chapter provides a full and complete analysis of Schopenhauer’s view of suicide. Drawing on the limited secondary literature existing on this subject, attention is first focused on Schopenhauer’s dismissal of previous religious and philosophical arguments against this act, giving particular attention to his critique of Kant’s arguments (§3.1). Subsequently, the main points of Schopenhauer’s metaphysical worldview are presented and explained. Particular attention is given to Schopenhauer’s gloomy understanding of human condition and to his conception of death (§3.2). Having sketched the main features of what is commonly known as Schopenhauer’s pessimism, attention is drawn to Schopenhauer’s own argument for the futility of suicide as well as to his position on asceticism and on voluntary death by starvation (§3.3).
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