Lexington Books
Pages: 170
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-7936-4087-1 • Hardback • July 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-7936-4088-8 • eBook • June 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Robyn Gaier is assistant professor of philosophy at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Why the Amorality of Suicide?
Chapter Two: Amoral Actions
Chapter Three: Actions of Suicide as Amoral
Chapter Four: A Few Objections and Replies
Chapter Five: The Significance of Charting a New Path
Bibliography
“The suggestion that suicide is beyond the reach of moral assessment is sure to raise eyebrows, but Robyn Gaier pursues this line of thought with profound acumen, acuity, and, most important, humanity. In my view, Why Suicide Is Amoral: A Philosophical Account is the most important philosophical text on suicide in many years.”
— Dale Dorsey, University of Kansas
“In Why Suicide Is Amoral: A Philosophical Account, Robyn Gaier offers a deft and lucid analysis of a fraught and difficult topic. Handling the topic with sensitivity and grace, Gaier argues that actions of suicide are amoral, in the sense that they fall outside the moral domain of evaluation, and as such are neither morally impermissible nor permissible. Her account of suicidal action is novel and enlightening. Gaier’s discussions of deliberative and moral agency are plausible, deeply interesting, and richly developed. This book will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in the ethics of suicide, including issues surrounding self-sacrifice and medical end-of-life care, and to anyone with an interest in the nature and exercise of our capacities for moral and deliberative agency.”
— Justin Klocksiem, New Mexico State University