Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily DickinsonHarper Collins, 28.09.2010 - 1572 Seiten 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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... find the most lively cases in the Hellenistic period—the few hun- dred years between the dominance of Classical Greece and that of Classical Rome.1 It's not surprising that an in-between period is our main focus: human beings define ...
... mystery of why certain people find each other attractive and lovable — as if struck by an arrow . Along with the gods , there were the even more immediate daemons, vaguely drawn embodiments of occult power. 2 DOUBT : A HISTORY.
... find a way into the minds of youth . Hence our epidemics of youthful irreligiousness — as though there were no gods such as the law enjoins us to believe in .... " " 15 The philosophers , Plato tells us , assert that the gods are not ...
... find logical causes for all effects , he found him- self stymied by the motion of the heavens . Aristotle was so convinced that things needed to be pushed on in order to move that he came up with a natu- ralistic theory for why a tossed ...
... find some other matter to execute her cruelty. . . .”26 Without Isis, the lonely wanderer is at the mercy of chaos. But there was another response to the shift from the Olympian gods to the distant gods of the heavens, along with all ...
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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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