[PHIL 360] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (66 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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Thesis: argues that socrates does not think that being dead is always preferable to life, and that the religious views expressed in the passage are consistent with his general stance on the benevolence of the gods. O(cid:272)(cid:396)ates (cid:272)lai(cid:373)s he does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake a fuss (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause he is goi(cid:374)g to a (cid:271)ette(cid:396) pla(cid:272)e [i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g better friends and better gods] C2 being dead is sometimes but not always better than being alive. C2 is by far the most common standpoint from which rational suicide is justified. what the pertinent conditions may be? and on that question different ethical theories will give different responses. In that case it seems that the immediate course of action for any committed platonist should be suicide. Socrates places an almost total prohibition on killing the stoics. Stoics of the imperial roman period - are associated with the acceptance and practice of rationally calculated.
