Hello,
Most philosophers, in all periods of history, have at
some point discussed suicide, and either condemned it
or justified it in various ways.
Philosophers can be classified into three main
categories on these matters. Some, for whom the reason
for living is exterior to man, condemn suicide in the
name of the Divinity, of the City, or of abstract
Moral Law. Others, taking Nature, or Man in his mere
naturalistic aspects, as the ultimate point of
reference, authorise suicide, without however
encouraging it, when health, will, or intelligence
deteriorate, and man has only suffering, pain, and
loss of dignity ahead of him. The stance of the third
group, the Stoics, is linked to the acknowledgment of
the value of man : man is trapped within the game of
the world, but, unlike other beings, he possesses
reason, which enables him to know what depends on him
and what does not depend on him. What depends on him
is his inner life, his reason, and his will. We must
be able to become independent of what happens to us,
and, therefore, disdain all things which happen to us
independently of our will - to disdain death above
all. This is not to glorify suicide, but it does
justify keeping one's own self-control, derived from
reason and will, which make us independent of living
and dying. What is of value is not the act of suicide
but the inner freedom which allows this act when it is
more reasonable than continued life. This is precisely
the higher view of suicide, upon which Evola based
himself in 'The Right to Life', published in Diorama
mensile (a column of the paper Regime Fascista) on the
17th of May 1942, though he elevates the topic further
by considering it from the point of view of Aryan
teachings.
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