PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Garrett Hardin, Michel De Montaigne, Book Of Deuteronomy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Dean Lauer

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Ch 19 do readings if you wanna. Middle eastern religion: condemn the act as an offence against god, god is the giver of life. Suicide the taking of ones own life is ungodly because it rejects gods gift of life. No man or woman should presume to take gods authority upon themselves to end his or her own life. Eastern religions: are open to suicide on conditions of intolerable pain or dishonour. Plato: permitted exceptions to the civil prohibitions against suicide for cases of extreme dishonour, self-administered capital punishment (socrates), painful disability and terminal disease, certain cases of infanticide, and voluntary euthanasia. Aristotle: belie(cid:448)ed that sui(cid:272)ide (cid:449)as agreea(cid:271)le i(cid:374) so(cid:373)e (cid:272)ir(cid:272)u(cid:373)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)es. He felt that, (cid:862)taki(cid:374)g o(cid:374)es o(cid:449)(cid:374) life to a(cid:448)oid po(cid:448)erty or desire or pai(cid:374) is u(cid:374)(cid:373)a(cid:374)ly or rather (cid:272)o(cid:449)ardly. (cid:863) although he believed this, he also felt that it was allowed if the state ordered it.