The scepticaemic surgeon :: how not to win friends and influence people /

Michel de Montaigne invented the literary term ""essay"" derived from the French word essai, meaning to put on trial. In his collection of essays he describes his life's work in testing his responses to different subjects and situations, using his ego and alter ego as counci...

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Weitere Verfasser: Baum, Michael, 1937- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2014.
Schriftenreihe:World philosophy series.
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Zusammenfassung:Michel de Montaigne invented the literary term ""essay"" derived from the French word essai, meaning to put on trial. In his collection of essays he describes his life's work in testing his responses to different subjects and situations, using his ego and alter ego as council for and against the case. In one such essay he writes, ""Why do doctors begin by practising on the credulity of their patients with so many false promises of a cure, if not to call the powers of the imagination to the aid of their fraudulent concoctions?"" It is hard to believe that this was written over 400 years ago, ye.
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Beschreibung:1 online resource
ISBN:9781634631372
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