Such are the themes a set of powerful thinkers take on in this volume-self-knowledge, self-deception, destiny, the value of a human life. In his last misery, he is said to illustrate the tragic lament that it is better not to be born, or, once born, better to die young than to live into old age. Realizing this, he struggles at the end of his life for a serenity that seems to elude him. Faced with a damning prophecy, he tries to take destiny into his own hands and fails. As a ruler he expresses the greatest good will toward his people, but as an exile he will do nothing to save them from their enemies. He is proud of his intellect, but he does not know himself and succumbs easily to self-deceptions. Oedipus presents ceaseless paradoxes that have fascinated readers for centuries. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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