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The Hemlock Cup
- Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
Engelsk Paperback
The Hemlock Cup
- Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
Engelsk Paperback

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We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism ''The unexamined life is not worth living'' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. For seventy years Socrates was a vigorous citizen of Golden Age Athens, philosophising in the squares and public arenas rather than in the courts of kings, before his beloved city turned on him, condemning him to death by poison.

Socrates lived in and contributed to a city that nurtured key ingredients of contemporary civilisation - democracy, liberty, science, drama, rational thought - yet, as he wrote almost nothing down, he himself is an enigmatic figure. In The Hemlock Cup, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes gives Socrates the biography he deserves, painstakingly piecing together Socrates'' life and using fresh evidence to get closer to the man who asked ''how should we live?'' - a question as relevant now as it has ever been.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
544
ISBN-13:
9780099554059
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0099554054
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2011
Længde:
37mm
Bredde:
121mm
Højde:
193mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2011
Forfatter(e):
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