Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers presents a series of concise biographies devoted to philosophers, reformers, skeptics, and religious critics who challenged the accepted beliefs of their societies. Moving from the ancient world to the nineteenth century, the collection introduces influential figures such as Epicurus, Giordano Bruno, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire, and Thomas Paine.Each portrait combines personal history with an accessible explanation of the subject’s principal ideas. The book pays particular attention to the courage required to question powerful religious and political institutions. Several of these thinkers endured censorship, imprisonment, exile, persecution, or death because they refused to co...
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