Which philosophers/authors had the most patrician views on suicide?
I know of Camus, as does everyone else who has graduated high school.
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Philipp Mainländer
>>8040719
You could've gone on to say something other than just a name... but thanks
>>8040738
You want his phone number or something?
>>8040708
DFW
>>8040708
http://www.davidhume.org/texts/suis.html
Yukio Chan.
>>8040708
Schopenhauer:
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
>>8040839
Yeah that'd be awesome man
>>8040850
This.
>The only moral argument against suicide is that it is opposed to the achievement of the highest moral goal, inasmuch as it substitutes for a true redemption from this world of misery to a merely apparent one. But it is a very long way from a mistake of this kind to a crime, which is what the Christian clergy want to call it.
>>8040850
I like this viewpoint a lot. Could it be seen as a kind of polar opposition to Christian ideas of sanctity of life? i.e. that life is God's gift, and therefore the possession of God's and not man.
I know I might be misunderstanding something here
>Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.
>A man does not kill himself, as is commonly supposed, in a fit of madness but rather in a fit of unendurable lucidity, in a paroxysm which may, if so desired, be identified with madness; for an excessive perspicacity, carried to the limit and of which one longs to be rid at all costs, exceeds the context of reason.
>I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.
