Seneca’s Views on Suicide and its Significance for the Contemporary Discussion on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide  Cover Image

Poglądy Seneki na temat samobójstwa i ich znaczenie dla współczesnej debaty w zakresie dopuszczalności eutanazji i samobójstwa wspomaganego
Seneca’s Views on Suicide and its Significance for the Contemporary Discussion on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Author(s): Michał Kamiński
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Filozofów Krajów Słowiańskich
Keywords: assisted suicide; euthansia; stoicism

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the views of Seneca the Younger and Marcus Aurelius on suicide. Pointing to the arguments of the Stoics for practicing assisted death in everyday life, the author discusses the topical issue of legal assisted suicide. He takes up the question of how far the laws should interfere in the will of man, resignation from its legal protection and turning the will into the crime.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 103-119
  • Page Count: 17