Aristotle on suicide [was Heidegger Email List?]
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From: “bob scheetz”
> —– Original Message —–
> From: “Anthony Crifasi”
>
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>> From: “Philip Baker”
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>> > Aristotle says suicide is an unjust act because the law forbids it, but
>> > do any list members live under the jurisdiction of any 4th century BC
>> > Greek city state?
>>
>> Aristotle says first that it is in violation of right reason. That is a
>> condemnation independent of the law.
>
> not to forget, …socrates, as usual, presents a powerful counter thesis,
> eh?
Socrates’ sentence wasn’t self-imposed - the fact that it was by his own
hand was accidental, since he explicitly gave his own position on the
subject (according to Plato, at least) during the very time he was waiting
to die:
“Then he, or any man who has the spirit of philosophy, will be willing to
die, but he will not take his own life, for that is held to be unlawful.”
(Phaedo 61c)
and:
“it should not be right for those to whom death would be an advantage to
benefit themselves” (Phaedo 62a)
