Advocating a Stoic View on Suicide

ISBN-13: 9783659928505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 60 str.

Nick Falkowski

Opis

This work presents a re-visitation and argumentation for a Stoic view on suicide, based chiefly on the writings of Seneca the Younger, but also with reference to Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Musonius Rufus. It examines various definitions and types of suicide, considerations of the right to suicide, and Spinoza's view on the impossibility of suicide. The work is an interesting and challenging new presentation of arguments found throughout Stoic philosophy advocating that given certain situations Suicide, far from being a negative act, can be argued to be the ultimate act and expression of freedom.

O autorze

Nick Falkowski has an MA in Philosophy specialising in Stoicism from the University of Birmingham, and a BA (Hons.) in Classics and Philosophy, also from the University of Birmingham. He is also the author of a collection of poems, Recursive Lines, published by Idle Toil Press.