PHL281H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Natural Philosophy, Scientific Method, Categorical Imperative
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Phl281 lecture 12 the permissibility of suicide: david hume. Major works wrote primarily at a very young age. A treatise of human nature (1739-40) has some atheistic themes therefore not popular. Hume: merely natural no normative conclusion we naturally love ourselves therefore natural law prohibits suicide life is a gift from god that should be respected normative conclusions from our natural, passive capacities. Allows that we all have a natural horror about death. Hume and aquinas disagree over the extent to which our active capacities put us, at least in part, outside of nature how to understand our relationship with our nature. Aquinas because we are in god"s image, our active capacities are outside nature. Hume we are inside nature and our activities are inside nature there is no sense in which we are not fully natural and so the idea that being unnatural is a possibility is out of the question. Hume rejects the interpretation which is self-conscious deliberation.
