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In Phaedo, Plato, through Socrates, presented a view that suicide is wrong as it's abandoning a divinely assigned duty. He likened humans to guards at posts, forbidden to leave before receiving orders.
Plato writes in his work Phaedo, through the quintessentially wise character of Socrates, of course, in one of his more Pythagorean moments he talks about a concept that the Pythagoreans actually were...
— Episode: Episode #062 ... Kant pt. 7 - Suicide
Episode: Episode #062 ... Kant pt. 7 - Suicide
In Phaedo, Plato, through Socrates, presented a view that suicide is wrong as it's abandoning a divinely assigned duty. He likened humans to guards at posts, forbidden to leave before receiving orders.
Plato writes in his work Phaedo, through the quintessentially wise character of Socrates, of course, in one of his more Pythagorean moments he talks about a concept that the Pythagoreans actually were the first to lay out. The idea that suicide is definitely wrong. It's wrong because it would be releasing ourselves from our duty that the gods put us here to do.