PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Religion In The Middle East, Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery, Mortal Sin
27 Mar 2017
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Suicide: middle eastern religions, condemn the act as an offence against god, god is the giver of life. He gives, and he takes away (job 1:21). Suicide, the taking of one"s own life, is ungodly because it rejects. No man or woman should presume to take god"s authority upon themselves to end his or her own life: eastern religions, are open to suicide on conditions of intolerable pain or dishonour. Taking one"s own life to avoid poverty or desire or pain is unmanly or rather cowardly . Although he believed this, he also felt that it was allowed if the state ordered it. Suicide should be seen as a a remarkably extreme act and, therefore, almost always unwise: stoicism encompassed the belief of most of the greeks when it came to suicide. The stoics, like plato and aristotle, believed that suicide was wrong except under some circumstances.
