Hume on Suicide - Oxford Handbooks.
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary were published as well, including the one by “The World’s Classics” (London, 1903; reprinted in 1904). These bibliographical details are important because they show how highly the essays were regarded by Hume himself and by many others up to the present century.
Suicide is a leading cause of death among adolescents. This problem is taken seriously and students are often asked to write essays on suicide. It’s not easy to tell someone who is contemplating suicide even when they are so close to you. One of the main causes of suicide is depression, which you can mention in your introduction to a suicide.
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In 1782, Hume’s last two suppressed essays, Of Suicide and Of the Immortality of the Soul, appeared to overwhelmingly negative criticism. Hume is widely regarded as the third and most radical of the British empiricists, after John Locke and George Berkeley.
Hume, on the contrary, thinks that suicide is morally permissible, also on the grounds of his analysis of duties. He talks about three types of duties: to god, to ourselves, and to others. I will skip the first category, since I don’t think there are any gods toward whom we have any duties.
Though the gift of life is a virtue so invaluable that it would seem immensely farcical to throw it away, the reality of suicide is upsettingly prevalent in Canada, and all over the world. Though it seems stereotypically immoral, philosopher David Hume defended the act, labeling suicide as sometimes.
This essay examines Hume’s attitude to suicide, in which he had an ongoing philosophical interest, as found in the dialogue at the end of An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, and in.