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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... answer was that when the gods , or suggestions of the gods , show up in dreams and visions , it is because the universe does in fact have some sort of population of phan- toms . Democritus described these phantoms as possibly being some ...
... answers that the clouds make it rain . If it were Zeus , he could “ drizzle in an empty sky , while the clouds were on vacation , ” but that never happens.13 When full of water , the clouds rumble like an over - full belly . The farmer ...
... answer — not right , but rational , i.e. , dependent on reasoning and evidence . The ball moved because the air moved , and the air moved because the hand pushed the ball into it , and one can keep going backward this way , tracing the ...
... answered that conquering is fun and we might as well do that while we have the chance. Still, some control of one's own hungers is clearly necessary for happiness, and for many people what Diogenes had proposed was attractive even in ...
... answered fear of the gods by simply insisting that the gods do exist, sort of, but that they are totally unconcerned with human affairs. Epicurus agreed with Democritus's atomic theory and with his atomic the- ory of the pantheon: 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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