Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily DickinsonHarper Collins, 28 בספט׳ 2010 - 1572 עמודים 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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 9
... Ancient Jews 45 THREE What the Buddha Saw , 600 BCE – 1 CE Ancient Doubt in Asia 86 FOUR When in Rome in Doubt , 50 BCE — 200 CE Empire of Reason 125 FIVE Christian Doubt , Zen , Elisha , and Hypatia , 1-800 CE Late - Classical Mix 169 ...
... ancients, in the West we are going to find the most lively cases in the Hellenistic period—the few hun- dred years ... ancient Greece or at a small town in early America. In our modern lives, many of us actively cultivate our differ ...
... ancient world would linger on the certainty of Classical Greece and then rush through its dissolution over the next few hundred years , I will briefly discuss Greek piety and then linger on the budding of doubt at the end of the ...
... ancient Greek religious rites persisted in the flavor and terminology of even Plato's most rationalist descriptions of the universe—and very much in his prescription for an ideal community. This was not only because these rites were so ...
... ancient Greek world is rationalism, naturalism, and secular history applied to the Olympic pantheon. The result of that was a world suffused by doubt, within which there were pockets of belief and pockets of real disbelief. As the ...
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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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