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



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Titolo: The ethics of suicide : historical sources / / Margaret Pabst Battin, editor Visualizza cluster
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-938582-3
0-19-938581-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910460589003321
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