PHIL-360 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Empirical Evidence, Rationality
22 Nov 2016
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With his debilitating disease, he is of no helpfulness to himself or others. Is it moral? (different questions) on suicide: a special instance of killing in which the killer and the killed are the same individual. Elderly man case: has lived a rich and satisfying life, but now is alone (no one is emotionally or financially supported by him) The argument from better of dead : it is rational to make oneself better off. Therefore if suicide makes you better off, then suicide is rational. company of better gods. To socrates, drinking the poison was rational because he believed he was joinging the: it is better to be dead than to be alive, it is rational to do the better thing, thus, it is rational to die. Presupposes that a corpse can have psychological experiences of consolation, Against premise 2: being better off is not a reason to choose suicide because it is not a better choice.
