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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.
Passagem de Notes on Suicide, de Simon Critchley.