Behaviorist Baron D'holbach And The Existentialist Philosopher Jean Paul Sartre

Case scenario

In 1999 Andrea attempted suicide and was diagnosed as having a psychotic disorder. She was placed on drug therapy which seemed to be effective; she was warned not to become pregnant lest the hormonal disturbances of pregnancy bring on another episode of psychosis. They were very religious, following the teachings of a traveling preacher who taught the role of women is derived from the sin of Eve and that bad mothers who are going to hell create bad children who will go to hell. The Yates couple decided to have another child, and she became pregnant almost immediately.

The child was born in November. Andrea's father died in March. After his death she began cutting herself, reading her Bible, and neglecting her youngest child. The next month, shortly after Rusty left for work, she filled the bathtub with water and systematically drowned each of her five children. She called the police and told them she had killed her five children because she was a “bad mother” who deserved to be punished and because the children “weren't developing right

Introduction

Andra Yates is a mother who had killed her five children by drowning them in the bathtub. She belongs to religious family and having a psychiatric disorder also. Now the case here is that why she had killed her five children. We are going to discuss the views of behaviorist Baron d'holbach and the existentialist philosopher Jean paul Sartre here. We will compare their views in the light of modern technology so as to know about the main reasons of this psychotic disorder.

Baron D'holbach views about this case

Views on suicide have been influenced by cultural views on existential themes such as religion, honor, and the meaning of life. Most Western and Asian religions—the Abrahamic religions, Buddhism, Hinduism—consider suicide a dishonorable act; in the West it was regarded as a serious crime and offense against God due to religious belief in the sanctity of life. Japanese views on honor and religion led to seppuku being respected as a means to atone for mistakes or failure during the samurai era; Japanese suicides rates remain some of the developed world's highest. In the twentieth century suicide in the form of self-immolation has been used as a form of protest, and in the form of kamikaze and suicide attacks as a military or terrorist tactic.

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