"Lec 25 - Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty" Death (PHIL 176) The discussion of suicide continues. A few more cases are introduced to consider circumstances under which it might be rational to end one's life, and more graphs are drawn that show relevant variations in the quality of one's life. A question is then posed about how one should make a decision about continuing or ending life, given that one cannot know the future with certainty. Finally, two quick moral arguments concerning suicide which rest on theological premises are presented. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Is Suicide Itself Rational? A Time-Value Analysis 12:58 - Chapter 2. To Continue or End Life Given the Uncertainty of Death 25:30 - Chapter 3. Rationalizing Suicide in Cases of Illness 36:40 - Chapter 4. Introduction to the Morality of Suicide: Is Life a Gift? Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
Video is embedded from external source so embedding is not available.
Video is embedded from external source so download is not available.
Channels: Others
Tags: death suicide circumstances rational theological
Uploaded by: yaledeath ( Send Message ) on 29-08-2012.
Duration: 50m 16s
No content is added to this lecture.
This video is a part of a lecture series from of Yale
Lec 2 - The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
Lec 3 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
Lec 4 - Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
Lec 5 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences
Lec 6 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
Lec 7 - Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
Lec 8 - Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
Lec 9 - Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
Lec 10 - Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory
Lec 11 - Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
Lec 12 - Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
Lec 13 - Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
Lec 14 - What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
Lec 15 - The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
Lec 16 - Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
Lec 17 - The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account
Lec 18 - The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
Lec 19 - Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I
Lec 20 - The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I
Lec 21 - Other bad aspects of death, Part II
Lec 23 - How to live given the certainty of death
Lec 24 - Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
Lec 26 - Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion