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Cover; Publisher Partnership; THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE; Copyright; Series; Contents; I Introduction: The Ethics of Suicide; II Selections; Egyptian Didactic Tale (c. 1937-1759 B.C.); Dialogue of a Man With His Soul The Vedas, Upanishads, and Puranas (c. 1500-c. 500 B.C.); Rigveda; Chandogya Upanishad; Isha Upanishad; Brahma Purana; Jabala Upanishad; Padma Purana; Skanda Purana; The Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha (c. 12th-1st centuries B.C.); Genesis: The Prohibition of Bloodshed; Exodus: The Ten Commandments Judges: Samson and the Philistines; I Samuel-II Samuel: Saul and his Armor-Bearer |
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Job: The Sufferings of JobHomer (c. 8th century B.C.); The Iliad: The Deaths of Hector and Achilles; Dharmashastra (c. 600 b.c.-200 a.d.); Gautama Sutra; Apastamba Sutra; Vasishtha Sutra; Laws of Manu; Vishnu Smriti; The Jain Tradition (599-527 b.c. to 5th century a.d.); Acaranga Sutra: The Seventh Lecture, called Liberation Tattvartha Sutra: Passionless End is Not Suicide Confucius (551-479 b.c.); The Analects; The Book of Filial Piety; Sophocles (c. 496-406 b.c.); Ajax Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides (c. 484-406 b.c.); Suppliant Women: The Suicide of Evadne, Watched by her Father |
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The Hippocratic Corpus (c. 450-c. 350 b.c.)The Hippocratic Oath; About Maidens; Plato (c. 424-c. 348 b.c.); Apology: Socrates on Being Condemned to Death Phaedo: The Death of Socrates The Republic: On Medicine The Laws: Recidivist Criminals and Penalties for Suicide Aristotle (384-322 b.c.); Nicomachean Ethics; Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 b.c.); The Mencius; Qu Yuan (c. 340-278 b.c.); Embracing Sand; Chrysippus (c. 280-c. 206 b.c.); The Stoics' Five Reasons for Suicide; Sima Qian (c. 145/135-86 b.c.); Records of the Grand HistorianThe Basic Annals of Xiang Yu! ; The Assassin and his Sister |
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Letter in Reply to Ren Shaoqing icero (106-43 b.c.); Tusculan Disputations; On Old Age; The Questions of King Milinda (c. 100 b.c.); On Suicide; Livy (59 b.c.-17 a.d.); The History of Rome: The Rape of Lucretia Seneca (4 b.c.-65 a.d.); Moral Letters to Lucilius; Letter 70: On the Proper Time to Slip the Cable; Letter 77: On Taking One's Own Life; Valerius Maximus (fl. c. 14-c. 37); Memorable Doings and Sayings Pliny the Elder (23-79); Natural History; Of God; Nature of the Earth; What Diseases are Attended with the Greatest Pain; Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35/50-c. 107) |
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Epistle: To the RomansJosephus (37-c. 100); The Jewish War; The Fall of Masada; Plutarch (c. 46-c. 120); Moralia: The Women of Miletus; Parallel Lives: Cato the Younger; The New Testament (c. 50-c. 125); Matthew: The Death of Jesus and the Suicide of Judas; Acts: Paul Prevents a Suicide; I Corinthians: The Body as Temple; Philippians: Paul in Prison: On the Desire to Die; Lotus Sutra (c. 50-c. 200); Tacitus (c. 55-c.117); The Annals: The Death of Seneca; Epictetus (c. 55-c. 135); Discourses; How From the Doctrine of Our Relationship to God We Are To Deduce its Consequences; Of Freedom |
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Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a ""noble duty, "" or even a fundamental human right? Whether it is called ""suicide"" or not, what role may a person play in the end of his or her own life? This collection of primary sources--the principal texts of ethical interest from major writers in western and nonwestern cultures, from the principal religious traditions, |
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Suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources
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Suicide -- Religious aspects -- Sources
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Suicide in literature.
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Suicide -- ethics
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Suicide -- history
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Suicide in literature
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Suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Suicide -- Religious aspects
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Självmord -- etik och moral -- historia.
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Självmord -- religiösa aspekter.
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Självmord i litteraturen.
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bibliographies.
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Bibliographies
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History
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Sources
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Bibliographies.
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Bibliographies.
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Electronic book
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9780199385812 |
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0199385815 |
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