THE STOIC PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN LOT: PANTHEISM AND SUICIDE
The article analyses the relation between metaphysics and ethics in the stoic philosophy. The author shows the dependence of the theory of suicide on fundamental ideas about the nature of the cosmos. The thesis of subordination of individual existence to principles of the global process leads eventually to the adoption of self-destructive programme in the individual life. The ethics of stoicism is not able to really oppose the person to circumstances. Therefore it inevitably reduces the individual activity to meet the requirements of the “state of affairs” – until the termination of their own lives in those cases, when it is the “state of affairs” will be read by sage as the terminal prescription of natural logos.
Keywords: philosophical anthropology, stoicism, wisdom, nature, ethics, suicide
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Issue: 5, 2013
Series of issue: Issue 5
Rubric: PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE
Pages: 9 — 16
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