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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... divine cares for man, for the individual man? Here a wound was opened in practical religion which would never close again.7 Philosophers could conjure proofs of God, but it was God 5 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ZEUS AND HERA?, 600 BCE –1 CE.
... never happens.13 When full of water , the clouds rumble like an over - full belly . The farmer asks if it is Zeus that moves the clouds at least and Socrates says , “ Not Zeus , idiot . The Convection - principle ! " The farmer replies ...
... never said anything like that. One can see the temptation, but as the great historian Etienne Gilson put it, “It should be permitted, however, to suggest that if Plato has never said that the Idea of Good is a god, the reason for it ...
... never considered the nature of the heavens ... their fore - limbs and heads were drawn by natural affinity to the earth . . . . ” As for fish , shellfish , and everything that lives in the water : “ Their souls were hopelessly steeped ...
... never going to be able to take part in the more philosophical route to truth, beauty, and human comfort; the mass of people needed ritual and ceremony to help them concentrate on the good. In Plato's idealized poleis described in the ...
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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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