#1084 Patrick Hassan: The Pilosophy of Suicide
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lops, and today I'm joined for a second time by Dr. Patrick Hassan. He's a senior lecturer at the School of English Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University. I'm leaving a link to our first interview in the description, which was about
his book Nietzsche's Struggle Against Pessimism and today we're talking about the philosophy of suicide. So Dr. Hassan, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to everyone. Thank you very much for having me back.
So what is then the philosophy of suicide? What kinds of questions do you explore there? Yeah, so the philosophy of suicide is an attempt, just like in in other fields, to understand the phenomenon of suicide. Specific philosophical approaches will typically involve questions pertaining to the rationality of suicide. Can we understand it as a rational phenomenon?
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