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Suicide: An Expression of Freedom or Cowardice? On Schopenhauer’s View of Human Will Freedom in the Context of the Issue of Suicide
Piotr Henryk Malich
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The author of the article presents Arthur Schopenhauer’s reasoning regarding an individual’s decision to commit suicide. The references made aim to clarify the argument of German philosopher, highlighting the continuity between Schopenhauer’s positions on issues related to human will freedom and his perception of the physical world. The result of this reasoning is the conclusion that Schopenhauer’s understanding of the issue of suicide is conditioned by the voluntarism he expresses in his writings, as well as by the proposed “path” of action and shaping one’s life through the denial of one’s own will and contemplation.
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Arthur Schopenhauer, suicide, free will, cowardice, motives for actionSimilar Articles
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