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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’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 ...
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
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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.
Jul 1, 2014 · Hume shows the groundlessness of the different burdens that theists impose on the act of suicide, claiming that it is either “a disruption of the natural order,” “the destruction of something of value to God,” or else “an expression of ingratitude” (Holden 2005: 199–205).
