Abstract

BAQUEDANO JER, Sandra. El suicidio por causa ontológica: el caso Mainländer. Tópicos [online]. 2021, n.41, pp.1-5. ISSN 1666-485X.

When suicide is explained from the point of view of psychiatry, psychology or sociology, a critical perspective often prevails, mainly focusing on its prevention. In philosophy, emphasis is placed firstly on attempting to understand, based on actual cases in the history of thought, why the life’s perception of many people can lose value, due to certain beliefs or points of view, to such an extent that life becomes philosophically non-viable. The case of Mainländer confronts the reader with a cosmovision according to which the background of reality becomes an experience so destructive that it results impossible for one to live without being hurt as a result, thus leaving one with the option to no longer persist with life. This law of suffering, however, is presented as necessary for the ultimate end, that is, resting in eternal peace, absolute death, nothingness. This article explores how the author of The Philosophy of Redemption materialize and adduce ontological arguments on this issue to end with his life barely hours after receiving a fresh copy of his work that had just been published.

Keywords : suicide; will to die; absolute death; not being; nothingness.

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