Biathanatos a declaration of that paradox, or thesis, that self-homicide is not so naturally sin, that it may never be otherwise 12+

📘 Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания (издательство "New York, The Facsimile text society", 1930 год), созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг.Biathanatos; reproduced from the first edition, with a bibliographical note by J. William Hebel.Biathanatos is a work by the English writer and clergyman John Donne. Written in 1608 and published after his death, it contains a heterodox defense of self-homicide (suicide), listing prominent Biblical examples including Jesus, Samson, Saul, and Judas Iscariot. Thomas de Quincey responds to the work in his Writings VIII, page 336, and Jorge Luis Borges responds in Biathanatos, in his collected non-fiction