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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... meaning? 12. Do you believe that the world is not completely knowable by science? 13. If someone were to say, “The universe is nothing but an accidental pile of stuff, jostling around with no rhyme nor reason, and all life on earth is ...
... meaning - rupture because we are human and the universe is not . Great doubters , like great believers , have been people occupied with this problem , trying to figure out whether the universe actually has a hidden version of humanness ...
... meaning, the idea that the universe has an agenda can get you off the park bench and back to your life. Also in terrific contrast to the universe, human beings have a seemingly innate notion of what is fair. Yet as John F. Kennedy ...
... meaning is ridiculous , and we ought to train ourselves away from our willfulness and our struggle to invent , succeed , and sustain . Most prophets , preachers , and seers have made use of both these ideas . On the one hand , when the ...
... meaning. On the other hand, when the religious virtuoso tells us that God has meanings and purposes that we merely ... meaning and purpose with the sense that meaning and purpose reign throughout the human experience and the universe at ...
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FOUR When in Rome in Doubt 50 BCE200 | |
FIVE Christian Doubt Zen Elisha and Hypatia | |
SIX Medieval Doubt LoopstheLoop 8001400 | |
SEVEN The Printing Press and the Age of Martyrs | |
EIGHT Sunspots and White House Doubters 1600 | |
NINE Doubts Bid for a Better World 18001900 | |
TEN Principles of Uncertainty 1900 | |
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