Re: " and debate 'Louise' "


Subject: Re: " and debate 'Louise' "
From: jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 08:48:38 EST


Jim writes:
> Yeah, I can't think of a religious tradition that thinks suicide is admirable
> in any circumstances (though the buddhists burning themselves in protest
> seems a bit of an exception, but Seymour's suicide was a bit different, I
> think). The only philosophy I can think of is an almost non-philosophy,
> something like a Byronic romanticism...

confucianism. People take their lifes to restore honor of the family.
Perhaps it is arguably a cultural support of the action, but the reason
for the support is confucian. The state, the family, then the individual.

but of course no religion / philosophy can make suicide a central
concept. It always has to be for something, buddhist burnings, hari-kari
etc. Otherwise the population of believers wouldn't last long.

-jason

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