Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks agoThe Stoic View of Suicide
Stoics rejected suicide from despair yet approved rational suicide when death preserved virtue, dignity, or freedom, exemplified by Cato, Socrates, and Metellus.
Anger is a bad habit that people tend to pick up from their parents. When a child who was raised at Plato's house was returned to his parents and witnessed his father shouting, he said, 'I never saw this at Plato's house.'