Suicide and a beautiful life

Author: Wu Fei
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is part of the "Thought and Society Studies Series" and conducts an in-depth study of suicide behavior. The book is divided into three parts: the pursuit of the limits of classical virtue, divinity and sin before God, and the birth of the modern suicide problem. The book is rich in content, thorough in analysis, and holds high academic value. It is not a strict of the history or thought of ideas. 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 described 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 has not discussed them. What this book aims to do is to select three periods—classical, medieval, and early modern Britain—to examine how people in these periods thought about and dealt with the same issue, thereby outlining their interconnected yet very different intellectual threads in approaching a good life, the nature of good and evil, and political construction.