Great Dissenters

Name: Great Dissenters
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ISBN: 9780393005295

ISBN-10: 0393005291

ISBN-13: 9780393005295

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Norman Thomas

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The twentieth century's greatest American dissenter has written a study of the five men whose own dissents helped shape the western world -- Socrates, Galileo, Tom Paine, Wendell Phillips, and Gandhi. Conformity to custom, Mr. Thomas believes, is essential to the human community; it provides a base for judgment and security, Progress, however, depends on those who go beyond custom in search of the truth and thus cause us to reappraise our loyalties. Heresy, then, is the growing part of the social tree. Mr. Thomas has chosen men whose dissents were not born of rebellious natures, subjective tensions, or mystic convictions that a new conformity should replace the old. Rather their dissents…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/1970
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 0.50" wide x 0.80" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English