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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... Empire of Reason 125 FIVE Christian Doubt, Zen, Elisha, and Hypatia, 1–800 CE Late-Classical Mix 169 SIX Medieval Doubt Loops-the-Loop, 800–1400 Muslims to Jews to Christians 216 SEVEN The Printing Press and the Age of Martyrs, 1400 ...
... empire, which indicates that the charges were serious, but he was not found. The reason he was indicted for profaning the mysteries was that nothing broader was on the books. The philosopher Anaxagoras is the earliest historical figure ...
... Empire and beyond—all of western Asia as far east as modern Pakistan. These vast territories were now under one rule, and Alexander avoided revolt by encouraging his newly won territories to feel like one big, mixed culture. To energize ...
... empires to a sprawling cosmopolitan network of urban centers. When he died, young, in 323 BCE, no one else proved capable of controlling these vast holdings. They fell into two empires—the Ptolemaic and the Seleucid—under the command of ...
... empire, the Egyptian goddess Isis was the most important of them, especially for the intellectual, urban elite. Worldwide now instead of local, Isis left her historical throne on the Nile and took up a lunar throne from which she could ...
Inhalt
1 | |
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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