The Archparadox of Death and Dionysus and Politics: Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World

Dionysus and Politics: Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World

The Archparadox of Death

Name: The Archparadox of Death
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Author: Dariusz Karlowicz
ISBN: 9783631665626

Martyrdom as a Philosophical Category

by Dariusz Karlowicz

Hardback
274 pages
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
14.9 x 21.1 x 2 cm

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The book deals with martyrdom understood as a philosophical category. The main question pertains to the evidential value of the Christian witness through death. The author approaches an answer through a philosophical interpretation of the belief in the evidential role of martyrdom. Numerous historical documents confirm that ancient martyrdom might have been considered as a kind of proof also by people unaffiliated with the Church. The author observes the theology and the reality of martyrdom through the perspective of the ancient philosophy of death and radical personal transformation. He believes that the Christian stance in the face of persecutions could have been understood as the realization of the unrealized ambitions of philosophy, thereby proving indirectly the veracity of the teaching revealed by Jesus Christ.