SOC201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Michel De Montaigne, Altruistic Suicide, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
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Pop quiz --- practical consequences by emile durkheim. According to durkheim, suicide is normal. (p. 363) An increasing rate of suicide is the inevitable price of progress. (p. 368) Moral penalties --- such as refusing a regular burial to people who commit suicide would reduce the suicide rate. (p. 371) In modern society, the altruistic from of suicide is disappearing. (p. 373) As a new barrier against suicide, durkheim proposes the corporation. (p. 378) Because the god gives the life, so it is honor to serve the god with our life. When the life is end is depending on the god. In french law: life is to serve the country, suicide is not right, but there is penalty, state could take someone"s life. Sometimes people commit suicide because it shows strength a. i. 2. Sometime people commit suicide at the moment is bad, but when sometimes later, the life will become better a. ii. Found some argument in the literatures that against suicide: for suicide, montagne"s conclusion c. i.
