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The ethics of suicide : historical sources / Margaret Pabst Battin, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Battin, M. Pabst.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suicide--Moral and ethical aspects--History--Sources.
- Suicide.
- Suicide--Religious aspects--Sources.
- Suicide in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (753 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- 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,
- Contents:
- Pliny the Younger (62-113)
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-938582-3
- 0-19-938581-5
- OCLC:
- 918624145
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