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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... biographies, and some posited a whole other world of meaning that did not rely on the gods in any important way. THE MECHANISM OF THE UNIVERSE In the second half of 3 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ZEUS AND HERA?, 600 BCE –1 CE.
... importance. For the sake of both individual peace and state unity, atheism was to be a capital offense. It did not ... important, they honor the gods and provide occasions for the members 19 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ZEUS AND HERA?, 600 BCE ...
... important in the his- tory of doubt because it championed rationalism . Throughout his work he called for reason , proofs , and demonstration , and he worked out the begin- nings of whole disciplines showing how to do this : from marine ...
... important change, people went from being citizens, or a citizen's family member, to being subjects. Individuals in the polis had been part of something that explicitly made the whole more important than its parts, and yet that whole was ...
... important and the other looks wise and well rested. What is more, given the way of the world, the rich and powerful man seems rid- ing for a fall, whereas the tanning philosopher seems to be in a very stable place. The ragged figure was ...
Inhalt
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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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