In this 1820 lecture, Arthur Schopenhauer argues that religious condemnation of suicide lacks substantive philosophical or scriptural foundation, as the church cannot cite any biblical passage forbidding suicide, and thus their moral objections are merely empty declamations without genuine argument.
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Arthur Schopenhauer on Suicide (1820)Ajouté :
Let me be precise about something which people persistently misunderstand. I do not condemn suicide in the manner of the clergy.
They have no argument worth examining.
The church brands it a crime, yet cannot find a single passage in scripture that forbids it.
They declaim. They call it cowardice.
They offer insipidities.
What penalty, I ask, can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?
The ancients, the Stoics, the Greeks, many honored volun-
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