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At the heart of this essay by Hume is a criticism of the ‘sanctity of life’ argument, widely appealed to in the moral condemnation of those who commit suicide.
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Aug 6, 2024 · This essay discusses Hume’s views on suicide and the value of life, also with an eye to their relevance to the present debate on euthanasia. I will first take a look at some of the more personal remarks Hume made in his letters on these subjects and the role they played in his own life.
Hume might, without obvious inconsistency, hold both (a) that rea son by itself is quite impotent to move us to do or feel anything, and (b) that reason is able to influence our actions and feelings significantly. This means that Hume can argue philosophically about suicide, with some hope (in theory, at least) of having an effect on
May 23, 2015 · Hume’s famous essay Of Suicide, offered here in the authentic 1757 text (which differs considerably from the frequently reprinted posthumous 1777 and 1783 versions), provides a series of detailed and adroit objections to the principal points of Thomas Aquinas’s [q.v.] arguments against suicide, including those that claim that suicide is ...
Jul 9, 2013 · This essay examines Hume’s attitude to suicide, in which he had an ongoing philosophical interest, as found in the dialogue at the end of An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, and in his brief essay on the topic.
