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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... tradition . Thus the birth of philosophy is , in itself , one of the origins of doubt — when empirical , rational thinking becomes a goal unto itself , that means people have devel- oped a system for checking whether an idea has a ...
... tradition, nor experience, nor contemplation. THIS SEEMS UNLIKELY Pantheon religions have some very attractive traits, but the simple fact that gods are many leads to their being identified by somewhat distinct personalities, and that ...
... tradition of trying to imagine where the idea of gods came from , famously claiming that if oxen and horses and ... traditional forms , but Xenophanes ' ideas were wildly popular . It has been argued that with these ideas Xenophanes ...
... traditional rites of piety . At his famous trial , Socrates responded to his accuser by asking if the idea was that he didn't believe in any gods at all . He went on to say that it had been an oracle that told him to become a ...
... traditional Greek poetry that had made characters of the gods and the by now well - established Greek philosophy that had denied the gods . Greek piety in the period before Plato had two main aspects : ecstasy and sacrifice . You took ...
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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