The ethics of suicide : historical sources / / Margaret Pabst Battin, editor
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| Autore: |
Battin M. Pabst
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| Titolo: |
The ethics of suicide : historical sources / / Margaret Pabst Battin, editor
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (753 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 179.7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Suicide - Moral and ethical aspects - History |
| Suicide - Religious aspects | |
| Suicide in literature | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | BattinM. Pabst |
| 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, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The ethics of suicide |
| ISBN: | 0-19-938582-3 |
| 0-19-938581-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807314003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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