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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... nature of physical beauty, to understanding the beauty of the soul, to beauty of knowledge, and finally—with much struggle—to knowledge of the realm of ultimate beauty, the ideal, otherworldly Form. For a lot of people throughout ...
... nature of the heavens ... their fore - limbs and heads were drawn by natural affinity to the earth . . . . ” As for fish , shellfish , and everything that lives in the water : “ Their souls were hopelessly steeped in every kind of error ...
... nature.23 Aristotle himself didn't make much use of the concept of God one way or another . Yet in attempting to find logical causes for all effects , he found him- self stymied by the motion of the heavens . Aristotle was so convinced ...
... nature. But the rest has been added by way myth to persuade the vulgar and for the use of the laws and of expediency.24 of Aristotle thought the unmoved mover had mind; in fact, it was nothing but thought thinking itself. Nothing he had ...
... doubt that characterizes much thought in this period con- trasts sharply with the emotional nature of the Mystery Religions, but both were imagined as havens, set against a chaotic background. The 26 DOUBT: A HISTORY.
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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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