シガイ　ト　ナル　コト　ナク　シヌ　コト　スピノザ　エチカ　ダイ４ブ　テイリ39　ビコウ　ノ　チュウシャク

Dying without turning into a corpse Commentary on Spinoza’s Ethics, Part IV, Proposition 39, Scholium

ササキ, コウヤ

Sasaki, Koya

死

変化（変異）

価値論

Spinoza

Death

Change (Mutation)

Axiology

In Spinoza’s Ethics, human death cannot be reduced to the mere turning into a corpse, and the ethical use of such peculiar mutation (transformation) is suggested as the primary task of human beings. Since the 2000s, Spinozist scholarship has discussed in various ways the problem of dying without turning into a corpse. Yet the concepts that should at least condition this problem—namely, diversity and accommodation—have not been adequately examined. This paper therefore first offers a commentary of the texts (E4p39sc) in which the possibility of dying without turning into a corpse is evoked. It then explicates the content of these two concepts. Finally, in the conclusion and in outlining future tasks, I argue that dying without turning into a corpse must be understood, from the perspective of Spinozist axiology, as residing not in accommodation but rather in adaptation.