HSS 4107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stoicism, Epicurus, Gie

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 4107
• Professor: Stuart Chambers

Document Summary

Lecture terms 6: beliefs concerning an intentional death: pythagoreans (5th-century bc) God exists, you cannot intentionally take your own death. They thought the soul was placed in the body as a punishment for sins committed in a previous existence. Picked up this belief in 1st century 80: socrates (469-399 bc) So long as we have the body, the soul is contaminated by such evil. Once you die, your soul is liberated from the body, and ultimate truth is revealed. This gave people an excuse to kill themselves to liberate themselves from the body, and this belief starts spreading. Ro(cid:373)a(cid:374)s do(cid:374)"t like this; the(cid:455) tell hi(cid:373) to lea(cid:448)e. he does(cid:374)"t lea(cid:448)e, a(cid:374)d he d(cid:396)i(cid:374)ks a potio(cid:374) with hemlock and is condemned to death. In a sense, socrates contributed to his own death because he could of walked away, but he did(cid:374)"t. He (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e a so(cid:396)t of a (cid:373)a(cid:396)t(cid:455)(cid:396): plato (427-347 bc)