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The Ethics of Suicide : Historical Sources.

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Cover -- Publisher Partnership -- THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE -- Copyright -- Series -- Contents -- I Introduction: The Ethics of Suicide -- II Selections -- Egyptian Didactic Tale (c. 1937-1759 B.C.) -- Dialogue of a Man With His Soul† -- The Vedas, Upanishads, and Puranas (c. 1500-c. 500 B.C.) -- Rigveda -- Chandogya Upanishad -- Isha Upanishad -- Brahma Purana -- Padma Purana -- Skanda Purana -- Jabala Upanishad -- The Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha (c. 12th-1st centuries B.C.) -- Genesis: The Prohibition of Bloodshed -- Exodus: The Ten Commandments† -- Judges: Samson and the Philistines -- I Samuel-II Samuel: Saul and his Armor-Bearer -- Job: The Sufferings of Job -- Homer (c. 8th century B.C.) -- The Iliad: The Deaths of Hector and Achilles -- Dharmashastra (c. 600 b.c.-200 a.d.) -- Gautama Sutra -- Apastamba Sutra -- Vasishtha Sutra -- Laws of Manu -- Vishnu Smriti -- The Jain Tradition (599-527 b.c. to 5th century a.d.) -- Acaranga Sutra: The Seventh Lecture, called Liberation† -- Tattvartha Sutra: Passionless End is Not Suicide† -- Confucius (551-479 b.c.) -- The Analects -- The Book of Filial Piety -- Sophocles (c. 496-406 b.c.) -- Ajax† -- Oedipus at Colonus -- Euripides (c. 484-406 b.c.) -- Suppliant Women: The Suicide of Evadne, Watched by her Father -- The Hippocratic Corpus (c. 450-c. 350 b.c.) -- The Hippocratic Oath -- About Maidens -- Plato (c. 424-c. 348 b.c.) -- Apology: Socrates on Being Condemned to Death† -- Phaedo: The Death of Socrates† -- The Republic: On Medicine† -- The Laws: Recidivist Criminals and Penalties for Suicide† -- Aristotle (384-322 b.c.) -- Nicomachean Ethics -- Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 b.c.) -- The Mencius -- Qu Yuan (c. 340-278 b.c.) -- Embracing Sand -- Chrysippus (c. 280-c. 206 b.c.) -- The Stoics' Five Reasons for Suicide -- Sima Qian (c. 145/135-86 b.c.).
Records of the Grand Historian The Basic Annals of Xiang Yu‡ -- The Assassin and his Sister -- Letter in Reply to Ren Shaoqing† -- Cicero (106-43 b.c.) -- Tusculan Disputations -- On Old Age -- The Questions of King Milinda (c. 100 b.c.) -- On Suicide -- Livy (59 b.c.-17 a.d.) -- The History of Rome: The Rape of Lucretia† -- Seneca (4 b.c.-65 a.d.) -- Moral Letters to Lucilius -- Letter 70: On the Proper Time to Slip the Cable -- Letter 77: On Taking One's Own Life -- Valerius Maximus (fl. c. 14-c. 37) -- Memorable Doings and Sayings† -- Pliny the Elder (23-79) -- Natural History -- Of God -- Nature of the Earth -- What Diseases are Attended with the Greatest Pain -- Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35/50-c. 107) -- Epistle: To the Romans -- Josephus (37-c. 100) -- The Jewish War -- The Fall of Masada -- Plutarch (c. 46-c. 120) -- Moralia: The Women of Miletus -- Parallel Lives: Cato the Younger -- The New Testament (c. 50-c. 125) -- Matthew: The Death of Jesus and the Suicide of Judas -- Acts: Paul Prevents a Suicide -- I Corinthians: The Body as Temple -- Philippians: Paul in Prison: On the Desire to Die -- Lotus Sutra (c. 50-c. 200) -- Tacitus (c. 55-c.117) -- The Annals: The Death of Seneca -- Epictetus (c. 55-c. 135) -- Discourses -- How From the Doctrine of Our Relationship to God We Are To Deduce its Consequences -- Of Freedom -- Pliny the Younger (62-113) -- Letters -- To Calestrius Tiro -- To Catilius Severus -- Justin Martyr (c. 100-165) -- The Second Apology: Why Christians Do Not Kill Themselves -- Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-c. 215) -- The Praises of Martyrdom† -- Tertullian (c. 160-c. 220) -- To the Martyrs -- The Crown of Martyrdom -- Bhagavad-Gita (3rd century) -- The Way to Eternal Brahman -- Genesis Rabbah (compiled 3rd-5th century) -- Commentary on Genesis 9:5 -- Plotinus (204-270) -- The Enneads -- On Happiness.
On the Primal Good and Secondary Forms of Good -- 'The Reasoned Dismissal' -- Lactantius (c. 240-c. 320) -- The Divine Institutes -- Eusebius (c. 260-339) -- Ecclesiastical History -- Ambrose (337/340-397) -- Of Virgins: Letter to Marcellina -- Augustine (354-430) -- The City of God† -- On Free Choice of the Will† -- The Babylonian Talmud (3rd-6th centuries) -- Bava Kamma -- Avodah Zarah -- Gittin -- Semahot -- Bana (c. 595-c. 655) -- Harsha-Carita, The Death of the Great King: On Sati† -- Kadambari -- The Quran (traditional date c. 632-c. 650) -- Surahs -- Hadith: The Sayings of Muhammad (7th-9th century) -- Ya'qub al-Qirqisani (c. 890-c. 960) -- The Book of Lighthouses and Watchtowers† -- Ahmad ibn Fadlan (fl. 920s) -- The Risala: By the River Volga, 922: Viking Ship-Burial -- Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi (c. 923-1023) -- Borrowed Lights: On Suicide† -- Jetsun Milarepa (c. 1052-c. 1135) -- Songs of Milarepa† -- Abu-Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1056-1111) -- Revival of the Religious Sciences† -- Tosafot (12th-14th centuries) -- On Avodah Zarah 18a -- On the Torah: Concerning Genesis Rabbah (Genesis 9:5) -- Henry de Bracton (c. 1210-1268) -- On the Laws and Customs of England: Where a Man Commits Felony Upon His Own Person -- The Norse Sagas (c. 1220-c. 1400) -- Gautrek's Saga: The Family Cliff -- Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) -- Summa Theologiae: Whether One is Allowed to Kill Oneself -- Angela of Foligno (c. 1248-1309) -- The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno† -- Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Battuta (1304-1368/69) -- Rihla: On Sati and Religious Suicide -- Thomas More (1478-1535) -- Utopia -- A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation† -- Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- Table Talk -- Francisco de Vitoria (c.1483/92-1546) -- Lecture on Homicide† -- John Calvin (1509-1564) -- Sermons on Job† -- Solomon ben Jehiel Luria (1510-1573).
Yam shel Shelomoh On Bava Kamma 8:59 -- Central and South American Indigenous Cultures (documented 1519-1621) -- Central America -- Aztec -- Codex Chimalpopoca: The Death of Quetzalcoatl (1570)‡ -- Letters from Mexico -- (Hern©Łn Cort©♭s, 1519-1520) -- General History of the Things of New Spain (The Florentine Codex) -- The Festival in the Month of T©đxcatl -- The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Years (Bernardino de Sahag©ðn, c. 1565) -- Monarchia Indiana -- Chimalpopoca's Victory in Death (Juan de Torquemada, 1609-1615) -- In Defense of the Indians (Bartolom©♭ de Las Casas, 1548-1550) -- Maya -- Popol Vuh -- How the People Obtained Fire (dictated in K'iche', c. 1554-1558 -- Francisco Xim©♭nez, c. 1701) -- An Account of the Affairs of Yucat©Łn -- Ixtab: Goddess of the Gallows (Diego de Landa, c. 1570) -- Caribbean Peoples -- Natural History of the West Indies -- Suicide on the Death of the Chief (Gonzalo Fern©Łndez de Oviedo, 1526) -- La Historia General de las Indias -- Suicide, Smallpox, and the Arrival of the Spaniards (Francisco L©đpez de G©đmara, 1552) -- History of the New World -- Suffering at the Hands of the Spaniards (Girolamo Benzoni, 1565) -- South America -- The Incas -- The Incas: The Burial of Wives (Pedro de Cieza de Le©đn, 1553) -- Natural and Moral History of the Indies -- Of Superstitions They Used to the Dead (Jos©♭ de Acosta, 1589) -- The Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru -- What Those Who Hang Themselves Really Are (Pablo Jos©♭ de Arriaga, 1621) -- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Of Cannibals‡ -- A Custom of the Island of Cea† -- Abu'l Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551-1602) -- Biography of the Emperor Akbar: On Jauhar and Saka -- John Donne (1572-1631) -- Biathanatos† -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy† -- John Sym (1581c.-1638) -- Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing† -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679).
Leviathan -- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) -- Ethics -- Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694) -- Of the Law of Nature and Nations† -- John Locke (1632-1704) -- Second Treatise of Government Of the State of Nature Of Slavery -- Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) -- Diary -- Huang Liuhong (1633-c. 1710) -- A Complete Book Concerning Happiness and Benevolence -- North American Indigenous Cultures (documented 1635-1970) -- Northeast -- Ojibwa -- Mrs. Cochran Becoming a Windigo (R. Landes, 1932-1935) -- Micmac -- The Gaspesians: Suicide, Shame, and Despair (Chrestien Le Clercq, 1675-1686) -- Huron -- Le Jeune's Relation (Jean de Br©♭beuf -- Father Paul Le Jeune 1635-1636) -- The Suicide of Children‡ (Anthony F.C. Wallace, citing LeMercier, 1600s) -- Iroquois -- Suicide (Father Joseph Fran©ʹois Lafitau, 1712-1717) -- Suicide of the Widowed (Baron de Lahontan, 1703) -- The Song of Death (Baron de Lahontan, 1703) -- Seneca -- Murder and Suicide‡ (Mrs. Mary Jemison, 1817) -- The Code of Handsome Lake (Edward Cornplanter, Arthur C. Parker, 1850, 1913) -- The Suicide as Earthbound (Jesse Cornplanter) -- Southeast -- Cherokee -- Varieties of Shame: Time of Death, Pollution, and the Disfigurement of Smallpox (James Adair, 1775) -- Natchez -- The Favorite Wife of the Chief Sun (Jean-Bernard Bossu, 1751-1762) -- Great Plains -- Comanche -- Elderly Persons "Thrown Away" (Ernest Wallace and Edward Adamson Hoebel, 1933, 1945) -- Suicide from Overwhelming Shame‡ (Edward Adamson Hoebel, 1940) -- Arapaho -- The Rarity of Suicide -- When the Camp Moved (M. Inez Hilger, 1935-1942) -- Sioux -- Suicide among Sioux Women (John Bradbury, 1809-1811) -- Cheyenne -- Two Twists in Battle (Karl N. Llewellyn and Edward Adamson Hoebel, 1941) -- Mandan -- Smallpox and the End of a Household (Alfred W. Bowers, 1930-1931) -- Crow.
The Lowest of the Low‡ (William Wildschut, 1918-1927, 1960).
Summary: This collection of primary sources-the principal texts of philosophical interest from western and nonwestern cultures, from the major religious traditions, and from oral cultures where observer reports of traditional practices are available, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, and North and South America-is intended to facilitate exploration of such current practical issues by exhibiting the astonishingly diverse range of thinking about suicide throughout human intellectual history, in its full range of cultures and traditions.
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Cover -- Publisher Partnership -- THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE -- Copyright -- Series -- Contents -- I Introduction: The Ethics of Suicide -- II Selections -- Egyptian Didactic Tale (c. 1937-1759 B.C.) -- Dialogue of a Man With His Soul† -- The Vedas, Upanishads, and Puranas (c. 1500-c. 500 B.C.) -- Rigveda -- Chandogya Upanishad -- Isha Upanishad -- Brahma Purana -- Padma Purana -- Skanda Purana -- Jabala Upanishad -- The Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha (c. 12th-1st centuries B.C.) -- Genesis: The Prohibition of Bloodshed -- Exodus: The Ten Commandments† -- Judges: Samson and the Philistines -- I Samuel-II Samuel: Saul and his Armor-Bearer -- Job: The Sufferings of Job -- Homer (c. 8th century B.C.) -- The Iliad: The Deaths of Hector and Achilles -- Dharmashastra (c. 600 b.c.-200 a.d.) -- Gautama Sutra -- Apastamba Sutra -- Vasishtha Sutra -- Laws of Manu -- Vishnu Smriti -- The Jain Tradition (599-527 b.c. to 5th century a.d.) -- Acaranga Sutra: The Seventh Lecture, called Liberation† -- Tattvartha Sutra: Passionless End is Not Suicide† -- Confucius (551-479 b.c.) -- The Analects -- The Book of Filial Piety -- Sophocles (c. 496-406 b.c.) -- Ajax† -- Oedipus at Colonus -- Euripides (c. 484-406 b.c.) -- Suppliant Women: The Suicide of Evadne, Watched by her Father -- The Hippocratic Corpus (c. 450-c. 350 b.c.) -- The Hippocratic Oath -- About Maidens -- Plato (c. 424-c. 348 b.c.) -- Apology: Socrates on Being Condemned to Death† -- Phaedo: The Death of Socrates† -- The Republic: On Medicine† -- The Laws: Recidivist Criminals and Penalties for Suicide† -- Aristotle (384-322 b.c.) -- Nicomachean Ethics -- Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 b.c.) -- The Mencius -- Qu Yuan (c. 340-278 b.c.) -- Embracing Sand -- Chrysippus (c. 280-c. 206 b.c.) -- The Stoics' Five Reasons for Suicide -- Sima Qian (c. 145/135-86 b.c.).

Records of the Grand Historian The Basic Annals of Xiang Yu‡ -- The Assassin and his Sister -- Letter in Reply to Ren Shaoqing† -- Cicero (106-43 b.c.) -- Tusculan Disputations -- On Old Age -- The Questions of King Milinda (c. 100 b.c.) -- On Suicide -- Livy (59 b.c.-17 a.d.) -- The History of Rome: The Rape of Lucretia† -- Seneca (4 b.c.-65 a.d.) -- Moral Letters to Lucilius -- Letter 70: On the Proper Time to Slip the Cable -- Letter 77: On Taking One's Own Life -- Valerius Maximus (fl. c. 14-c. 37) -- Memorable Doings and Sayings† -- Pliny the Elder (23-79) -- Natural History -- Of God -- Nature of the Earth -- What Diseases are Attended with the Greatest Pain -- Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35/50-c. 107) -- Epistle: To the Romans -- Josephus (37-c. 100) -- The Jewish War -- The Fall of Masada -- Plutarch (c. 46-c. 120) -- Moralia: The Women of Miletus -- Parallel Lives: Cato the Younger -- The New Testament (c. 50-c. 125) -- Matthew: The Death of Jesus and the Suicide of Judas -- Acts: Paul Prevents a Suicide -- I Corinthians: The Body as Temple -- Philippians: Paul in Prison: On the Desire to Die -- Lotus Sutra (c. 50-c. 200) -- Tacitus (c. 55-c.117) -- The Annals: The Death of Seneca -- Epictetus (c. 55-c. 135) -- Discourses -- How From the Doctrine of Our Relationship to God We Are To Deduce its Consequences -- Of Freedom -- Pliny the Younger (62-113) -- Letters -- To Calestrius Tiro -- To Catilius Severus -- Justin Martyr (c. 100-165) -- The Second Apology: Why Christians Do Not Kill Themselves -- Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-c. 215) -- The Praises of Martyrdom† -- Tertullian (c. 160-c. 220) -- To the Martyrs -- The Crown of Martyrdom -- Bhagavad-Gita (3rd century) -- The Way to Eternal Brahman -- Genesis Rabbah (compiled 3rd-5th century) -- Commentary on Genesis 9:5 -- Plotinus (204-270) -- The Enneads -- On Happiness.

On the Primal Good and Secondary Forms of Good -- 'The Reasoned Dismissal' -- Lactantius (c. 240-c. 320) -- The Divine Institutes -- Eusebius (c. 260-339) -- Ecclesiastical History -- Ambrose (337/340-397) -- Of Virgins: Letter to Marcellina -- Augustine (354-430) -- The City of God† -- On Free Choice of the Will† -- The Babylonian Talmud (3rd-6th centuries) -- Bava Kamma -- Avodah Zarah -- Gittin -- Semahot -- Bana (c. 595-c. 655) -- Harsha-Carita, The Death of the Great King: On Sati† -- Kadambari -- The Quran (traditional date c. 632-c. 650) -- Surahs -- Hadith: The Sayings of Muhammad (7th-9th century) -- Ya'qub al-Qirqisani (c. 890-c. 960) -- The Book of Lighthouses and Watchtowers† -- Ahmad ibn Fadlan (fl. 920s) -- The Risala: By the River Volga, 922: Viking Ship-Burial -- Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi (c. 923-1023) -- Borrowed Lights: On Suicide† -- Jetsun Milarepa (c. 1052-c. 1135) -- Songs of Milarepa† -- Abu-Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1056-1111) -- Revival of the Religious Sciences† -- Tosafot (12th-14th centuries) -- On Avodah Zarah 18a -- On the Torah: Concerning Genesis Rabbah (Genesis 9:5) -- Henry de Bracton (c. 1210-1268) -- On the Laws and Customs of England: Where a Man Commits Felony Upon His Own Person -- The Norse Sagas (c. 1220-c. 1400) -- Gautrek's Saga: The Family Cliff -- Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) -- Summa Theologiae: Whether One is Allowed to Kill Oneself -- Angela of Foligno (c. 1248-1309) -- The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno† -- Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Battuta (1304-1368/69) -- Rihla: On Sati and Religious Suicide -- Thomas More (1478-1535) -- Utopia -- A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation† -- Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- Table Talk -- Francisco de Vitoria (c.1483/92-1546) -- Lecture on Homicide† -- John Calvin (1509-1564) -- Sermons on Job† -- Solomon ben Jehiel Luria (1510-1573).

Yam shel Shelomoh On Bava Kamma 8:59 -- Central and South American Indigenous Cultures (documented 1519-1621) -- Central America -- Aztec -- Codex Chimalpopoca: The Death of Quetzalcoatl (1570)‡ -- Letters from Mexico -- (Hern©Łn Cort©♭s, 1519-1520) -- General History of the Things of New Spain (The Florentine Codex) -- The Festival in the Month of T©đxcatl -- The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Years (Bernardino de Sahag©ðn, c. 1565) -- Monarchia Indiana -- Chimalpopoca's Victory in Death (Juan de Torquemada, 1609-1615) -- In Defense of the Indians (Bartolom©♭ de Las Casas, 1548-1550) -- Maya -- Popol Vuh -- How the People Obtained Fire (dictated in K'iche', c. 1554-1558 -- Francisco Xim©♭nez, c. 1701) -- An Account of the Affairs of Yucat©Łn -- Ixtab: Goddess of the Gallows (Diego de Landa, c. 1570) -- Caribbean Peoples -- Natural History of the West Indies -- Suicide on the Death of the Chief (Gonzalo Fern©Łndez de Oviedo, 1526) -- La Historia General de las Indias -- Suicide, Smallpox, and the Arrival of the Spaniards (Francisco L©đpez de G©đmara, 1552) -- History of the New World -- Suffering at the Hands of the Spaniards (Girolamo Benzoni, 1565) -- South America -- The Incas -- The Incas: The Burial of Wives (Pedro de Cieza de Le©đn, 1553) -- Natural and Moral History of the Indies -- Of Superstitions They Used to the Dead (Jos©♭ de Acosta, 1589) -- The Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru -- What Those Who Hang Themselves Really Are (Pablo Jos©♭ de Arriaga, 1621) -- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Of Cannibals‡ -- A Custom of the Island of Cea† -- Abu'l Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551-1602) -- Biography of the Emperor Akbar: On Jauhar and Saka -- John Donne (1572-1631) -- Biathanatos† -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy† -- John Sym (1581c.-1638) -- Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing† -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679).

Leviathan -- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) -- Ethics -- Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694) -- Of the Law of Nature and Nations† -- John Locke (1632-1704) -- Second Treatise of Government Of the State of Nature Of Slavery -- Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) -- Diary -- Huang Liuhong (1633-c. 1710) -- A Complete Book Concerning Happiness and Benevolence -- North American Indigenous Cultures (documented 1635-1970) -- Northeast -- Ojibwa -- Mrs. Cochran Becoming a Windigo (R. Landes, 1932-1935) -- Micmac -- The Gaspesians: Suicide, Shame, and Despair (Chrestien Le Clercq, 1675-1686) -- Huron -- Le Jeune's Relation (Jean de Br©♭beuf -- Father Paul Le Jeune 1635-1636) -- The Suicide of Children‡ (Anthony F.C. Wallace, citing LeMercier, 1600s) -- Iroquois -- Suicide (Father Joseph Fran©ʹois Lafitau, 1712-1717) -- Suicide of the Widowed (Baron de Lahontan, 1703) -- The Song of Death (Baron de Lahontan, 1703) -- Seneca -- Murder and Suicide‡ (Mrs. Mary Jemison, 1817) -- The Code of Handsome Lake (Edward Cornplanter, Arthur C. Parker, 1850, 1913) -- The Suicide as Earthbound (Jesse Cornplanter) -- Southeast -- Cherokee -- Varieties of Shame: Time of Death, Pollution, and the Disfigurement of Smallpox (James Adair, 1775) -- Natchez -- The Favorite Wife of the Chief Sun (Jean-Bernard Bossu, 1751-1762) -- Great Plains -- Comanche -- Elderly Persons "Thrown Away" (Ernest Wallace and Edward Adamson Hoebel, 1933, 1945) -- Suicide from Overwhelming Shame‡ (Edward Adamson Hoebel, 1940) -- Arapaho -- The Rarity of Suicide -- When the Camp Moved (M. Inez Hilger, 1935-1942) -- Sioux -- Suicide among Sioux Women (John Bradbury, 1809-1811) -- Cheyenne -- Two Twists in Battle (Karl N. Llewellyn and Edward Adamson Hoebel, 1941) -- Mandan -- Smallpox and the End of a Household (Alfred W. Bowers, 1930-1931) -- Crow.

The Lowest of the Low‡ (William Wildschut, 1918-1927, 1960).

This collection of primary sources-the principal texts of philosophical interest from western and nonwestern cultures, from the major religious traditions, and from oral cultures where observer reports of traditional practices are available, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, and North and South America-is intended to facilitate exploration of such current practical issues by exhibiting the astonishingly diverse range of thinking about suicide throughout human intellectual history, in its full range of cultures and traditions.

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