Suicide : right or wrong? / edited by John Donnelly.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary issues in philosophyPublication details: Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1990.Description: 212 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0879755954 (alk. paper) :
  • 9780879755959 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 179.7 20 D718s
LOC classification:
  • HV6545 .S8426 1990
NLM classification:
  • HV 6545
Other classification:
  • 71.79
Contents:
The stoic view / Seneca -- The Catholic view / St. Thomas Aquinas -- Reason and superstition / David Hume -- Duties towards the body in regard to life / Immanuel Kant -- Did Socrates commit suicide? / R.G. Frey -- Attitudes toward suicide / Joseph Fletcher -- Suicide, self-sacrifice, and coercion / William E. Tolhurst -- The rhetoric of suicide / Suzanne Stern-Gillet -- Suicide and self-inflicted death / R.G. Frey -- Suicide and self-starvation / Terence M. O'Keeffe -- Mastering the concept of suicide / Glenn C. Graber -- Preventing suicide / Edwin S. Shneidman -- The ethics of suicide / Thomas S. Szasz -- Theistic and nontheistic arguments / Milton A. Gonsalves -- The morality and rationality of suicide / Richard B. Brandt -- On choosing death / Philip E. Devine -- The art of suicide / Joyce Carol Oates.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 179.7 D718s (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS001032320

Includes bibliographical references.

The stoic view / Seneca -- The Catholic view / St. Thomas Aquinas -- Reason and superstition / David Hume -- Duties towards the body in regard to life / Immanuel Kant -- Did Socrates commit suicide? / R.G. Frey -- Attitudes toward suicide / Joseph Fletcher -- Suicide, self-sacrifice, and coercion / William E. Tolhurst -- The rhetoric of suicide / Suzanne Stern-Gillet -- Suicide and self-inflicted death / R.G. Frey -- Suicide and self-starvation / Terence M. O'Keeffe -- Mastering the concept of suicide / Glenn C. Graber -- Preventing suicide / Edwin S. Shneidman -- The ethics of suicide / Thomas S. Szasz -- Theistic and nontheistic arguments / Milton A. Gonsalves -- The morality and rationality of suicide / Richard B. Brandt -- On choosing death / Philip E. Devine -- The art of suicide / Joyce Carol Oates.

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