Suicide and a good life

Author: Wu Fei
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Publish Date: 2007-10-01
Features: This book is one of the "Thought and Society Studies Series," offering an in-depth study of suicide behavior. The book is divided into three parts: "The Extreme Pursuit of Classical Virtue," "Divinity and Sin Before God," and "The Birth of the Modern Suicide Problem." The book is rich in content and provides thorough analysis, making it highly valuable academically. It is not a strict of the history or intellectual history of suicide. In recent years, research on the history of suicide in the West has been quite extensive. The purpose of this book is not to introduce the achievements of Western academia to China, nor to comprehensively outline the philosophical history of suicide thinking. For the period covered in this book, many thrilling discussions have not even begun. The period touched upon by this book involves many people and events related to suicide, but the author does not discuss them. What this book aims to do is to select three periods—Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Britain—to examine how people in these times thought about and addressed the same issue, thereby outlining their interconnected yet very different intellectual threads regarding the pursuit of a good life, the nature of good and evil, and political construction.