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Nov 26, 2010 · Cold relationship: Kenneth Grahame often ignored pleas to visit his son Alastair at boarding school - and never recovered when he committed suicide aged just 19. And yet, look closer at those...
David Hume, Of Suicide. 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. According to this, to take one’s own life is to take a decision that belongs to God and to God alone.
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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
The first sentence of this passage alludes to remarks made in ‘Of the immortality of the soul’ (paragraph 9), remarks that in fact play a relatively marginal role in the essay. The remainder of the passage cites claims in ‘Of suicide’ that are similarly peripheral.
The four founding members, who first sang together within a six-man group in 1965, were Alastair Hume, Alastair Thompson, Simon Carrington and Brian Kay. From 1965 until 1968, the first countertenor was Martin Lane and the first baritone was Richard Salter .
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 ...
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.
