From 'mors pro summo munere desideretur' to 'occidere se ipsum': An overall approach to Augustine on suicide
This article aims to offer an overview of the problem of suicide in Augustine of Hippo, from the anti-Manichean texts of the late 380s to De ciuitate dei and the rejoinder to Gaudentium (Contra Gaudentium). A transversal analysis of the evolution that the concept of voluntary death acquires througho...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10256/24100 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10256/24100 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Filosofia antiga Filosofia medieval Suïcidi Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Suicide Agustí, sant, bisbe d'Hipona, 354-430 |
| Sumario: | This article aims to offer an overview of the problem of suicide in Augustine of Hippo, from the anti-Manichean texts of the late 380s to De ciuitate dei and the rejoinder to Gaudentium (Contra Gaudentium). A transversal analysis of the evolution that the concept of voluntary death acquires throughout the work of Augustine allows us to identify up to four different conceptions of suicide, each of them corresponding to a rather well-defined chronological period: a philosophical conception, that we find in De libero arbitrio; a moral one, that we can excerpt from De mendacio; a polemical approach in the context of controversy against Donatism, that we can retrace in a set of writings from 400 to 412, and especially in Contra epistulam Parmeniani; and, finally, the conception of suicide as homicide, that appears in De ciuitate dei and that will define the decisive and most spread doctrine of Augustine in this matter. In this way, this paper aims to enrich, from a transversal chronological perspective, the studies that have been carried out over the last decades on suicide in Augustine |
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