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2017 – Mark Fisher committed suicide by hanging. 2019 – Ágnes Heller drowned in Lake Balaton near Balatonalmádi while she was swimming. 2020 – Bernard Stiegler committed suicide. 2020 – David Graeber died of necrotic pancreatitis. 2022 – Darya Dugina was killed during a terrorist attack. 2022 – Saul Kripke died of pancreatic cancer.
Plato believed that suicide was acceptable under some circumstances, similar to Socrates. Aristotle believed that suicide was acceptable in some circumstances. Although he believed that, “taking one’s own life to avoid poverty or desire or pain is unmanly… or rather cowardly,” [6] he also felt that it was allowed if the state ordered it ...
The Debate of Socrates and Aspasia by Nicolas-André Monsiau. Socrates's discussions were not limited to a small elite group; he engaged in dialogues with foreigners and with people from all social classes and of all genders. [77] A fundamental characteristic of Plato's Socrates is the Socratic method, or the method of refutation (elenchus). [78]
The following notable people died by suicide.This includes suicides effected under duress and excludes deaths by accident or misadventure. People who may or may not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is disputed, but who are widely believed to have deliberately killed themselves, may be listed.
The Trial of Socrates (399 BC) was held to determine the philosopher's guilt of two charges: asebeia against the pantheon of Athens, and corruption of the youth of the city-state; the accusers cited two impious acts by Socrates: "failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges" and "introducing new deities".
Embrace these quotes from one of the founding fathers of Western philosophy.
Suicide grief is a crazy kind of “what if” grief. I knew I needed to take a fresh look at my own mental health. Grief had become a colossal spotlight into the dark corners and crevices of my ...
Years later, after a defeat battle with the newest Roman ruler, Octavian, Cleopatra and Marc Antony both committed suicide. Historians speculate that Cleopatra killed herself with a bite from a ...