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

• 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
• ISBN: 0-19-938582-3; 0-19-938581-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460589003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II