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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... things are not fair and yet there is little evidence of fairness in the world outside our heads. Unbelievably painful things happen, sometimes for no apparent reason and with no justification. The question of value is part of this. We ...
... thing, or are at least fully compatible—early on in ancient Greece, for example. Where everyone seems to believe the ... things. Over time, vibrant details of the cult may fade from attention without much breach or upheaval. What was ...
... things that kept them alive , things that gave them light and food , water and warmth . These were the first gods , he guessed , and they were named for their function . The rest of the gods had been individual human beings who gave ...
... thing " of which everything else was constructed . The theory can seem less than rationalist since the ancients could not ... things grow and decay , a phenomenon that suggests something is being added and taken away , i.e. , that solid ...
... 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 same conclusion by cutting any object , a herring for instance , into smaller and smaller ...
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FOUR When in Rome in Doubt 50 BCE200 | |
FIVE Christian Doubt Zen Elisha and Hypatia | |
SIX Medieval Doubt LoopstheLoop 8001400 | |
SEVEN The Printing Press and the Age of Martyrs | |
EIGHT Sunspots and White House Doubters 1600 | |
NINE Doubts Bid for a Better World 18001900 | |
TEN Principles of Uncertainty 1900 | |
Copyright | xiii |
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