Quando não se Morre como nas Óperas de Verdi: Reflexões Histórico-Filosóficas Sobre o Suicídio e o Suicídio Racional na Antiguidade Clássica
Abstract
Neste artigo, abordam-se questões terminológicas acerca dos termos da Antiguidade clássica que significavam ‘suicídio’ e ‘eutanásia’; fala-se da posição adoptada por certas escolas e certos autores Antigos perante a morte voluntária; contextualiza-se, historicamente, o conhecido Juramento de Hipócrates e analisa-se a posição particular de Séneca sobre o suicídio racional, a partir de duas das suas Cartas a Lucílio.
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When Death Is Not Like In A Verdi Opera: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Suicide and Rational Suicide in Classic Antiquity
This article addresses: the terminological questions concerning the terms that signified ‘suicide’ and ‘euthanasia’ in classic Antiquity; the positions adopted by certain philosophical schools and authors in the context of the Greeks about voluntary death; the historical context of the Hippocratic Oath; and, finally, the particular ideas on rational suicide witnessed by two of Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius.
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