Citation

Vaz L. Filosofia Unisinos 2022; 23(2).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022)

DOI

10.4013/fsu.2022.232.01

PMID

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Abstract

In this article, I seek, at first, to examine several common-sense distinctions between suicide and self-sacrifice, adopting that around the intended destination of the act (for the agent himself or for others, respectively). In the second step, I try to defend this criterion of distinction against some central objections. Though defending this criterion of distinction against such objections, I intend, finally, to establish questions on the intersections between suicide and self-sacrifice, caused by extreme situations. In order to discuss these overlaps, I make a brief analysis, above all, of Sophocles' Antigone. © 2022 Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos. All rights reserved.

Language: pt

Keywords

Suicide; self-sacrifice; double effect. Antigone