مورد إلكتروني
External Conditions, Internal Rationality: Spinoza on the Rationality of Suicide
| العنوان: | External Conditions, Internal Rationality: Spinoza on the Rationality of Suicide |
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| المؤلفون: | MacLean-Evans, Ian |
| المصدر: | Journal of Spinoza Studies; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): Spinoza Studies; 40-63; Journal of Spinoza Studies; Vol 2 Nr 1 (2023): Spinoza Studies; 40-63; 2773-0093 |
| بيانات النشر: | University of Groningen Press 2023-05-31 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | MacLean-Evans, Ian |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | I argue alongside some other scholars that there is a plausible reading of Spinoza’s philosophy of suicide which holds both of the following tenets: first, that suicides occur because of external conditions, and second, that there are at least some suicides which are rational. These two tenets require special attention because they seem to be the source of significant tension. For Spinoza, if one’s cognitions are to be the most adequate, they must be “disposed internally” (E2p29s/G II 114), or determined more from one’s own mental nature than from “fortuitous encounters” with other things (E2p29s/G II 114). It may seem there is a conflict, then, in saying both that there are rational suicides in the Spinozist framework, and that suicides must always be a result of external conditions: it seems a suicide simply cannot be rational if it is the result of external conditions. But this tension, it will be shown, can be dissolved. Once this tension is dealt with, I offer some brief closing arguments. I explain how this reading of Spinoza’s philosophy of suicide can satisfy a call for new suicide research which avoids forms of over-individualism and epistemic injustice, and which encourages us to abolish oppressive conditions that lead to rational suicides. |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Spinoza, Suicide, Freedom, Rationality, Suicidology, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, Article |
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| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content Copyright (c) 2023 Ian MacLean-Evans https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0Test |
| ملاحظة: | application/pdf Journal of Spinoza Studies; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): Spinoza Studies; 40-63 2773-0107 English |
| أرقام أخرى: | GRU oai:prd-ojs.ojs3203:article/38201 https://jss.rug.nl/article/view/38201Test 1383749340 |
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