From Poison to Cow Dung: A History of Philosophers' Deaths
Complete video at: fora.tv From suicide by a love potion to suffocating in cow dung, Simon Critchley gives a brief history of the deaths of famous philosophers -- stories he describes as "weirdness, madness, suicide, murder, bad luck, pathos and some very dark humor." ----- English philosopher Simon Critchley, chair and professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, discusses his 2009 New York Times bestseller, The Book of Dead Philosophers. Starting with Cicero's axiom, "To ... Keywords: philosopher, philosophy, history, logic, reason, socrates, suicide, death, dead, historic, life, living, existence, plato, aristotle |
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