What would plato, socrates and Aristotles view on euthanasia and abortion be?
Socrates views are mostly reliant on Plato and Xenophon but only in Plato is abortion touched on. Basically, if the midwife saw it fit for the mother to have an abortion then she would cause the mother to do so. Plato was not involved in the whole pro life pro-choice debate and therefore didn’t talk about it as an issue. As far as Aristotle said i don’t recall him saying anything at all on the issue. They both held the ideal that it is good to benefit the state and bad to harm it and so if an abortion was deemed harmful then they would not allow it but if deemed good would allow it. but under cases of rape and such i don’t know what they would say. abortion as a form of birth control would be out of the question not due to the rights of the embryo or developing baby but due to the health of the woman.
