1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807314003321

Autore

Battin M. Pabst

Titolo

The ethics of suicide : historical sources / / Margaret Pabst Battin, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-19-938582-3

0-19-938581-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (753 p.)

Disciplina

179.7

Soggetti

Suicide - Moral and ethical aspects - History

Suicide - Religious aspects

Suicide in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Pliny the Younger (62-113)

Sommario/riassunto

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,



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814150003321

Autore

Orlov Dmitry

Titolo

The five stages of collapse : a survivor's toolkit / / Dmitry Orlov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gabriola Island, British Columbia : , : New Society Publishers, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-55092-527-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Disciplina

330.9/05

Soggetti

Economic history - 21st century

Social history - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Collapses in General -- Financial Collapse -- Case Study: Iceland -- Commercial Collapse -- Case Study: The Russian Mafia -- The Five Stages of Collapse Political Collapse -- Case Study: The Pashtuns -- Social Collapse -- Case Study: The Roma -- Cultural Collapse -- Case Study: The Ik -- Afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

A user's guide to economic, political, social and cultural collapse.