Morte e Suicídio no Tractatus de Wittgenstein

José Fernando da Silva

Death and Suicide in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

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José Fernando da Silva Pós-doutorando em Filosofia pela PUC-SP

Keywords:

Death, Suicide, Happy world, Life, Ethics

Abstract

This work presents the meaning of death and suicide in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. It postulates that, from the point of view of a happy world, death is not an event of life. It assumes that suicide is the greatest sin. Suicide is the absolute negation of life.

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Silva, J. F. da. (2012). Death and Suicide in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Cognitio: Revista De Filosofia, 12(2), 283–295. Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitiofilosofia/article/view/11609