University of Basrah Organizes a Workshop on the Philosophical Perspective on Suicide
The College of Arts at the University of Basrah organized a workshop on Suicide: Between Absurdity and Meaning – A Philosophical Perspective.
The workshop aims to introduce the concept of suicide in modern and contemporary Western philosophical thought, distinguishing it from a meaningless, absurd act, or an existential philosophical position that reveals the depth of the human crisis in the search for meaning in life.
The workshop included a lecture by Dr. Ghaida Habib Ali, a lecturer at the college. She offered an analytical presentation of the positions of several philosophers, starting with David Hume, who presented suicide within the context of the problem of individual freedom; Immanuel Kant, who considered it contrary to moral duty; Friedrich Nietzsche, who linked it to the idea of the will to power and transcending nihilism; Arthur Schopenhauer, who considered it an expression of defeat in the face of the suffering of existence; and Albert Camus, who made it the primary philosophical issue in his book The Myth of Sisyphus.
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