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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... sense of itself as old , as having seen a lot , this was a society with a primary rela- tionship to its religious ideas , and the strength of each of the many poleis had a lot to do with this primary certainty , this lack of doubt ...
... habits mixed in with the good. The Greek gods were at times lascivious, jealous, scheming, and cruel. Zeus slept around, Hera had a nasty sense of revenge , and few of the gods would scruple against 6 DOUBT: A HISTORY.
... sense . It was a stunning insight . Democritus's atoms fell into an orderly pattern by chance , but he ex- plained that once a pattern is established , the progress of things is not entirely accidental . The orderly pattern allows us to ...
... sense of divinity in the universe and a certainty that human beings need and ought to have a traditional , local religion in which they can believe wholeheartedly . Like the philosophers before him , Plato had a sense that there was ...
... sense that this was the only religion that would hold up nowa- days was thoroughgoing. The only religion that could be really believed by anyone in his time, he said, is based on belief that the stars have intelli- gence, and that we ...
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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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