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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... death , sum- mer to winter — but he saw a constancy behind all this flux , and named that constancy divine . So philosophy overthrew the gods right away . It also spoke of a single God right away , but this philosophical God was very ...
... death scene ever since : he comforted his friends and family ; sent away anyone weeping too much ; joked ; and reminded one sad friend that they were all going to die , so there was no reason to be upset for him in particular . Just at ...
... death , at the hands of a democratic Athenian gov- ernment , as a signpost of the decline of the great Greek poleis . Athens , which had become a democracy about 510 BCE , had a period of splendor that began with military victory in 490 ...
... death without recourse to mys- tery rites or the intervention of anthropomorphic gods ; what he'd offered here was a hypothesis , a theory , not a story , not something someone had heard . In the Timaeus that is exactly what was shared ...
... death in 323 BCE and Queen Cleopatra's death in 31 BCE.25 The period was so suffused by doubt that its philosophers were the original Cynics and Skeptics. To many, the Hellenistic period is not as familiar as the Hellenic age of ...
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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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