HSS 4107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: No Authority, Early Christianity, Convulsion
10 Oct 2018
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Beliefs concerning an intentional death: pythagoreans (5th century bc) One of the only sects that came down categorically against intentionally hastening death. Your moral duty is to always obey god"s commands. Prohibits you from taking early leave from life (euthanasia or abortion). Early christians adapt from this foundation, abiding to sanctity of death rst. Argued that the soul is placed in the body as a punishment of sins committed in a previous existence. This is why voluntary death was unjusti ed, as life was given by god to remind you of your immorality: socrates (469-399 bc) Around the same time period as pythagoreans. Belief that the person will not take his own life, because the pythagoreans say it is not permitted. Truth haunted him, because of that he believed we would understand the ultimate truth at the end of life. To reach this phase, you had to get rid of your body, so should would understand enlightenment.
