Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Responsibility is either linked to duties and expectations, or it is linked to the freedom of an agent.
These links are questionable. It is therefore necessary to investigate the freedom and context of
commission and omission.
There are numerous difficulties in evaluating suicide:
- The problem to distinguish between successful suicide and failed pseudo suicide.
- The problem of the mind: The limited accessibility of the emotions and attitudes despite its
expressibility And the unexpressibility of the experiences despite its immediate accessibility.
And the problem of other minds.
- The problem of the freedom of the will. Prove is given that no aspect of the mind is free -
despite our illusions of freedom.
- The problem of the cause, origin and extent of an act.
- The problem of the relation between brain and mind. This problem is important when we
consider the origin of acts and the concept of the self.
The important issues when solving the difficulties pertaining to suicide are:
- Agency: The self is owner of all acts and instances of mind. The self is also the subject of all
physical acts and acts of the mind.
- The self is an open complex system. The self is entangled in relations of differences, conflict
and deferment of meaning.
The important conclusions when evaluating suicide are:
- The agent is the owner and the subject of his acts. The agent has illusions of freedom. The
agent is inseparable from his circumstances.
- Acts originate in the context of these circumstances.
- Responsibility exists in the context of power in society.
- The answers to the questions of Why? Are logical reconstruction and politically correct
confabulations - whatever the answer is, it is shared by all participants of the context.The evaluation of suicide:
- The self-murderer`s act originates from the context of the circumstances of which he is a
participant.
- Suicide happens within the context of a pancheiria with aspects of autocheireō and
heterocheireō.
- The pancheiria started before the autocheireō.
- The pancheiria continues after the autocheireō. The autocheireō is but an indication of the
seriousness van the larger pancheiria. The self-murderer (autocheir) and his autocheireō persist as
a silhouette in our midst.
- The possibility of the self-murderer`s illusion of freedom does not liberate us from the
silhouette`s accusations.
- Neither does se sharing of guilt give as relieve from the silhouette`s accusations.
- Neither will we benefit from any rationalization.
Finally we can do nothing but to utter these statements of denial and confession :
- Suicide is wrong.
- But we have not done it. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Verantwoordelikheid word óf aan verpligtinge en verwagtinge, óf aan die vryheid van die agent
verbind. Hierdie verbindings word betwyfel. Daarom is dit nodig dat die vryheid van handeling
en nie-handeling sowel as die konteks waarin die handeling en nie-handeling gebeur ondersoek
word.
Verskeie probleme ten opsigte van die beoordeling van die selfmoord word uitgewys:
- Die probleem om die werklike geslaagde selfmoord te onderskei van die gefaalde
selfmoordpoging.
- Die probleme van die verstand. Naamlik die beperkte toeganklikheid van die emosies en
houdings, alhoewel dit uitdrukbaar is. En die onmiddelike toeganklikheid van die ervarings wat
dit te spyt nie uitdrukbaar is nie. Asook die probleem om ander verstande te ken.
- Die probleem van die vryheid van die wil. Dit word aangetoon dat geen aspek van die verstand
vry is nie. Dit nie teenstaande het ons steeds die illusie van vryheid.
- Die probleem van die oorsaak, die oorsprong en die reikwydte van handelinge.
- Die probleem van die verhouding tussen die brein en die verstand. Hierdie probleem is
belangrik by die oorwegings van die oorspong van handeling en die siening van die self.
Belangrike elemente by die oplossing van die beoordeling van selfmoord is:
- Die agentskap: naamlik dat die self die eienaar van alle verstandsitems en handelinge is, en dat
die self die subjek van alle verstandshandelinge en sigbare handelinge is.
- Die self as `n oop komplekse stelsel wat in wederkerige verhoudings is van verskil, geskil en
uitstel van betekenis.Gevolgtrekkings wat belangrik is by die beoordeling van selfmoord:
- Die agent is eienaar en subjek van sy handelinge, het die illusie van vryheid, is deel van sy
omstandighede.
- Die handeling ontstaan in die konteks van hierdie omstandighede.
- Verantwoordelikheid bestaan in die konteks van mag in die samelewing.
- Die antwoord op Hoekom? en Waarom? is logiese herkonstruksies en politiese korrekte
konfabulasie - maar wat ookal die antwoord is, dit word gedeel deur al die deelnemers aan die
konteks.
Die beoordeling van selfmoord:
- Die selfmoordenaar se handeling ontspring uit die konteks van sy omstandighede waaraan hy
`n deelnemer is.
- Die selfmoord gebeur eerder binne die konteks van `n pancheiria met aspekte van autocheireō
en heterocheireō.
- Die pancheiria was reeds voor die autocheireō.
- Die pancheiria duur voort na die autocheireō. Die autocheireō toon aan ons die erns van die
oorkoepelende pancheiria. Die selfmoordenaar (autocheir) en sy autocheireō bestaan voort as
silhoeët in ons midde.
- Die moontlike illusie van vryheid van die selfmoordenaar kan ons nie die aanklag deur die
silhoeët ontsnapping bied nie.
- Net so min kan die verdeling van skuld ons van die aanklag laat ontsnap.
- Enige rasionalisering van ons kant is nutteloos.
Laastens kan ons net sê:
- Selfmoord is verkeerd.
- Ons het dit nie gedoen nie.
Hierdie stellinge dien as ontkennings sowel as skuldbeleidenisse.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/16317 |
| Date | 04 1900 |
| Creators | Durand, Michiel Christoffel |
| Contributors | Cilliers, Paul, University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Philosophy. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | Afrikaans |
| Detected Language | Unknown |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 90 leaves : ill. |
| Rights | University of Stellenbosch |
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