![]() ![]() ![]() Out of a need to live up to their own philosophy, they turn their lives into a testing ground. They are eminently free people, these philosophers, yet there is at work in their biography a superior necessity that leads them to make certain moral choices, live a certain kind of life and die a particular type of death. ![]() Indeed, in a case like Socrates’, the dramatic ending is almost their only work. Their death thus become part of their philosophical work. This choice puts their philosophy to the test of life, as it were. Martyr-philosophers are thinkers such as Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More and Jan Patočka, who, when faced with the choice between betraying their philosophy to stay alive and dying to stay faithful to their philosophy, always chose the latter. The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers,” I examine the tradition of “philosophical martyrdom” in the West. ![]()
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