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Dying for ideas : the dangerous lives of the philosophers /
What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NK, USA :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their work. A "death for ideas" is a piece of philosophical work in its own right; Socrates may have never written a line, but his death is one of the greatest philosophical best-sellers of all time. Dying for Ideas explore |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1472522303 9781472522306 9781472525826 1472525825 9781472529718 1472529715 |