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. |
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... become a philosopher , and he would not have risked the unpleasant social and economic consequences of such a life if he had not believed in the divine origins of the command . There is no reason to doubt his hon- esty : Socrates wasn't ...
... become a democracy about 510 BCE , had a period of splendor that began with military victory in 490 BCE and ended with military defeat in 404 BCE . Athens had been greedy , had made enemies of too many neigh- boring peoples , who ...
... become reasonable. If we believe in any possibility of transcendence, then we cannot quite scorn any kind of transcendent work—if ritual, ceremony, and worship function at all in this capacity, for anyone, then they are part of the work ...
... become the hero for those who resent it when religious claims are used to justify political power . MORE MECHANICS AND AN UNMOVED MOVER Plato had a great student who maintained his doctrines and became his suc- cessor as head of the ...
... become inured to the pain of it. The central idea of Stoicism was that with the loss of the polis as the center of life, the universe should be conceived of as one giant polis. If men and women acted their parts in the universe as ...
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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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