← todas as notas❝ Citação‘Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter…2 Nov 2026#simon-critchley#notes-on-suicidePassagem de Notes on Suicide, de Simon Critchley.← todas as notas← Solomon’s categories are a beginning, it seems to me, but we would need to add more categories, such as the forms of suicide-homicide discussed in my essay, or the apparently inadvertent deaths that occur increasingly through fatal mixtures of drugs and alcohol, and where the question of intention is very hard to pin down. Spinoza argues that a free human being is one who lives according to reason alone and is not governed by fear. To be free is to desire the good directly and to act and live in such a way as to persist in this desire without flinching or failing. This is why the free human being thinks of nothing less than death. Human life is simply an aspect of the vast, living vibrancy of a universe of matter. As Flaubert proposed a couple of centuries later, Spinoza’s vision is extremely seductive, and it constitutes Saint Anthony’s final and irresistible temptation: matter is God. →
