← todas as notas❝ CitaçãoThe practice of philosophy, then, begins with a suicide. To philosophize is to learn how to die, Socrates argues in the Phaedo,2 Nov 2026#simon-critchley#notes-on-suicidePassagem de Notes on Suicide, de Simon Critchley.← todas as notas← the point is that the justification for suicide on the basis of rationality has to confront the fact that reason cannot peer into death and make any rational assessment. Dead man don’t do discourse. The question of the meaning of life is the wrong question and I humbly suggest that we stop asking it. Our minds will never stop rummaging through the drawers of self-doubt, self-disgust and self-pity in order to find some piece of forgotten dirty moral laundry. What is important is the ability to get life to stand still in order to look at it tenderly and with care, to cultivate slower forms of attention without renouncing life in some sovereign violent act. One should go on. →
