Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily DickinsonHarper Collins, 28 sep. 2010 - 1572 sidor In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an account of the world's greatest ‘intellectual virtuosos,' who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, from the ancient Greek philosophers, Jesus, and the Eastern religions, to modern secular equivalents Marx, Freud and Darwin—and their attempts to reconcile the seeming meaninglessness of the universe with the human need for meaning, This remarkable book ranges from the early Greeks, Hebrew figures such as Job and Ecclesiastes, Eastern critical wisdom, Roman stoicism, Jesus as a man of doubt, Gnosticism and Christian mystics, medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian skeptics, secularism, the rise of science, modern and contemporary critical thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the existentialists. |
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... everything that is a shame and reproach among men , stealing and committing adultery and deceiving each other . ” 8 A dedication to rational thought is part of the “ this seems unlikely ” phe- nomenon , but it is as often a matter of ...
... everything, he gives and takes, he is king of every- thing.”11 That comment that “we Greeks now speak of 'air'” is the heart of his thesis: now that we've got critical thinking, we can see the obvious. He did not seem overly surprised ...
... every- thing and everyone in the universe . Thus , everything must be made of some smallest thing that teams up with other smallest things to form one object and then another — as sand morphs into dunes and castles . You can get to the ...
... everything to do with his chief claim : that he knew nothing and yet was wiser than most , since at least he knew that he knew nothing . Socrates counts among those great minds who actually culti- vated doubt in the name of truth . The ...
... everything about the Greek pantheon that he did not feel he could logically support . But that still left him with a complex sense of divinity in the universe and a certainty that human beings need and ought to have a traditional ...
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TWO Smacking the Temple 600 BCE1 | 45 |
THREE What the Buddha Saw 600 BCE1 | 86 |
FOUR When in Rome in Doubt 50 BCE200 | 125 |
FIVE Christian Doubt Zen Elisha | 169 |
SIX Medieval Doubt LoopstheLoop 8001400 | 216 |
SEVEN The Printing Press and | 264 |
EIGHT Sunspots and White House Doubters 16001800 | 315 |
NINE Doubts Bid for a Better World 18001900 | 371 |
The New Cosmopolitan | 428 |
Notes | 495 |
Bibliography | 521 |
Acknowledgments | 529 |
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