The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide

Michael Cholbi, Paolo Stellino (Herausgeber)

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552 Seiten

2026
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-765438-5 (ISBN)

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Can suicide be, in certain situations, morally permissible or even morally obligatory? Can it be a rational choice? What are our obligations toward suicidal individuals? How should we even define suicide? The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide discusses these questions and expands the frontier of philosophical discourse to include heretofore neglected ethical and social aspects of suicide.

Starting with a critical overview of the most important historical philosophical approaches to suicide, the chronologically ordered chapters in the first part of this volume cover both Western and non-Western philosophical traditions. The second part is dedicated to foundational issues such as the nature, morality, and rationality of suicide. The final section covers philosophical issues related to the practice of suicide, addressing topics such as the ethics of suicide prevention and intervention, new suicide technologies, suicide and mental illness, suicide and media ethics, and suicide and gender, among others.

Across thirty-three chapters written by thirty-five leading scholars, this handbook provides a fresh, compelling analysis of past and contemporary trends in the philosophy of suicide.

Michael Cholbi is Professor and Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (2011) and an editor of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (second edition, 2023). Professor Cholbi is the founder of the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Philosophical Quarterly. Paolo Stellino is Researcher at the NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) and Invited Professor of the Department of Philosophy, NOVA University of Lisbon. His main fields of research interest are the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy, ethics (with a specific focus on philosophy of suicide), and philosophy of film. He is the author of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: On the Verge of Nihilism (2015) and Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein (2020).

List of Contributors

1. Introduction: Past and Contemporary Perspectives on the Philosophy of Suicide
Michael Cholbi, Paolo Stellino

PART I: Suicide in Philosophical Traditions

2. Suicide in Asian Traditions
Charles Goodman
3. Suicide in Ancient Greece
Anna B. Christensen
4. Suicide in Roman Philosophy
Hélder Telo
5. The Christian Prohibition of Suicide
Philip A. Reed
6. Suicide in Islam: Classical and Contemporary Approaches
Abdullah Saeed, Ali Akbar
7. Suicide in Early Modern Western Philosophy
Colin Heydt
8. Suicide in Modern Western Philosophy
Héctor Wittwer
9. Suicide in Contemporary Western Philosophy I: the 19th Century
Patrick Hassan
10. Suicide in Contemporary Western Philosophy II: the Philosophy of Suicide in Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy
Yael Lavi

PART II: Foundational Issues

11. What Is Suicide?
Steven Luper
12. Choosing Death: Virtue Ethics and Suicide
Liezl van Zyl
13. Kantian Approaches to Suicide
Lina Papadaki
14. Utilitarianism and Suicide
Torbjörn Tännsjö
15. The Rationality of Suicide
Frances M. Kamm
16. Suicide's Relation to Freedom
Paolo Stellino
17. Is There a Right to Suicide?
Chris Belshaw
18. Is There a Duty to Suicide?
Chris Belshaw
19. The Value of Death and Suicide
Travis Timmerman
20. Suicide and Pessimism
Andrea S. Asker
21. Suicide and Life's Meaningfulness
Michael Hauskeller

PART III: Suicide in Practice

22. Paternalism and the Ethics of Suicide Prevention
Michael Cholbi
23. Assisted Suicide: Deliverance or Danger?
Felicia Nimue Ackerman
24. Suicide and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Zsuzsanna Chappell
25. The Risks and Rewards of New Suicide Technologies
Adam Buben
26. Grief and Suicide
Becky Miller
27. Suicide as a Protest
Antti Kauppinen
28. Suicide Tourism
Daniel Sperling
29. Suicide and Depression
Nathaniel Sharadin
30. Suicide and Mental Illness
Hane Htut Maung
31. Suicide and Media Ethics
Sallyanne Duncan
32. Suicide, Social Media, and Artificial Intelligence
Erick Ramirez and Susan Kennedy
33. Suicide in the Moving Image
David Sorfa
34. Suicide and Gender
Katrina Jaworski

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	171 x 248 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	0-19-765438-X / 019765438X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-765438-5 / 9780197654385
Zustand	Neuware