A Three Thousand Years Old Discussion About Euthanasia
the right to die on one's own time
“No man is so foolish that he is enamored of death” - Sophocles 495-406BC
More than three thousand years have passed, and euthanasia is still debated in the medical, legal, philosophical and theological literature. Euthanasia, Greek for ‘good death’ or ‘easy death’, appears during the Hellenistic period. Apart from Hippocrates, many philosophers – Pythagoras, Socrates. Aristotle, Plato, Epicures, and closer to our time, Kant, Mill and others – indirectly dealt with euthanasia.
This blog discusses the earliest views about euthanasia - Pythagoras, Socrates. Aristotle, Plato, Epicures among others and compare them with more contemporary philosopher like Kant and Mill, to see how much our discussion in three thousand years had changed.
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