TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Spinoza on Lying and Suicide
JO  - British Journal for the History of Philosophy
A1  - Nadler, S.
SP  - 257
EP  - 278
VL  - 24
IS  - 2
N2  - Spinoza is often taken to claim that suicide is never a rational act, that a free person acting by the guidance of reason will never terminate his/her own existence. Spinoza also defends the prima facie counterintuitive claim that the rational person will never act dishonestly. This second claim can, in fact, be justified when Spinoza's moral psychology and account of motivation are properly understood. Moreover, making sense of the free man's exception-less honesty in this way also helps to clarify how Spinoza should, and indeed does, recognize the possibility of rational suicide. © 2016 BSHP.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0960-8788
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2015.1084491
ID  - ref1
ER  -