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Ethics (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)

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When Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged in 1945 for conspiring against the Nazi Third Reich, his best friend and future biographer Eberhard Bethge was left with a difficult task. Using a number of manuscripts (even scraps of paper) written by Bonhoeffer at different times and left in various places, Bethge pieced together the unfinished work under the title Ethik. This first editorial attempt had little to direct it other than a tentative outline sketched by Bonhoeffer. Trying to read the book as a whole resulted in confusion until 1963, when Bethge prepared...

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