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The Book of Dead Philosophers
Critchley Simon
edizioni Vintage Books collana Vintage Books (Paperback) , 2009
“To philosophize is to learn how to die.” —Cicero; assassinated by order of Mark Antony“One who no longer is cannot suffer.” —Lucretius; suicide, allegedly driven mad by a love potion“Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” —Hobbes; died in bed, age 91In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly...