Sydney’s Philosophy in the Café - Philo Agora.

Every Second Tuesday at 7:30 pm, Fair Trade Coffee Company, 33 Glebe Point Road, Glebe.

Tuesday, June 30, Abhijit Pal discusses "Suicide, Literature and Philosophy: To Be or Not to Be?"

Suicide is a popular theme in both literature (eg. Shakespeare) and philosophy (Camus referred to it as the only truly serious philosophical problem).  In the increasing awareness of mental health issues, why have both fields been largely absent from discourse on suicide? Current attitudes are based on the medical model of suicide, as a pathological state in need of treatment (antidepressants and CBT).  What are the reasons for this absence and what is to be done?

Abhijit is currently a student in medicine who graduated with a first class honours degree in neuroscience from the University of Sydney and has the intention of doing research in psychiatry.  He's also President of the Russellian Society (philosophy society) at the University of Sydney.

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Hazel, Cara, Peter and Sam.