{"id":13715,"date":"2025-11-15T06:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13715"},"modified":"2025-11-15T06:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:35:16","slug":"an-augustinian-argument-against-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/an-augustinian-argument-against-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"An Augustinian Argument against Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Examined and rejected. <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/an-augustinian-argument-against-suicide?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">Top<\/a> o&#8217; the <em>Stack<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook advertisement: &#8220;Mercifully brief, perfectly rigorous, and indisputably sound.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0I wouldn&#8217;t promote it that way here, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Contemplating suicide?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/contemplating-suicide?utm_source=publication-search\">Look before you leap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Green, <strong>Diary 1928-1957<\/strong>, p. 230:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>The yearning to leave the world is so strong at times that I don&#8217;t know how to resist it, but am nearly sure that this is the great temptation that must at all costs be warded off.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examined and rejected. Top o&#8217; the Stack. Facebook advertisement: &#8220;Mercifully brief, perfectly rigorous, and indisputably sound.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0I wouldn&#8217;t promote it that way here, of course. Contemplating suicide?\u00a0 Look before you leap. Julian Green, Diary 1928-1957, p. 230: The yearning to leave the world is so strong at times that I don&#8217;t know how to resist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/an-augustinian-argument-against-suicide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Augustinian Argument against Suicide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,37,270,472,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augustine","category-green-julien","category-kant","category-landsberg-paul-ludwig","category-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13718,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions\/13718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}