From Act to Fact
The Transformation of Suicide in Western Thought
in Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
Author:
Daniel Gordon
Daniel Gordon
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Abstract
The article is about the moral debate over suicide, from Augustine to the present. It assesses critically the transformation of a humanistic debate into a scientific one. Among the figures who receive detailed attention are Augustine, Montaigne, Donne, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Durkheim.