Suicidio y fiesta del yo. El suicidio como transgresión moral definitiva. A propósito de "on suicide" de David Hume

• Tasset, José Luis ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade da Coruña

     Universidade da Coruña

     A Coruña, España

     
• Localización: Telos: Revista iberoamericana de estudios utilitaristas, ISSN-e 2255-596X, ISSN 1132-0877, Vol. 1, Nº. 1, 1992, págs. 149-166
• Idioma: español
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  • By way of a lecture and assesment of Hume's «On Suicide» (written in 1755-1757, posthumately published in 1777 edition of the withdrawn essays), a defense of the right to commit suicide or autonomotanasia is offered. Being translated this essay into Spanish in four different editions -and being included into contemporary british practica! ethics readings-, we have up to this moment almost no study of its value and main theses. A coherent empirist, atheological and utilitarianist view of this work is provided, connecting its main and central ideas with present debate on individual rights and providing an specifically ethical-neither medical nor pathological-lecture of the suicide problem.