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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... gods over- saw a very well integrated society . Although every society has some sense of itself as old , as having seen a lot , this was a society with a primary rela- tionship to its religious ideas , and the strength of each of the ...
... gods or God, then it is purely descriptive to say that the god Apollo drives his char- iot across the sky every day, and perfectly appropriate to express awe at the sight of it. It may be a bit less obvious that Eros is a purely ...
... gods . ” Aristotle also explained that Thales believed a magnet had a soul since it can move iron , and Aristotle sup- posed that this was what Thales had meant when he said that “ soul is diffused throughout the whole universe ...
... gods into more believable terms. As the Greeks had once marveled at the deeds of the gods, now they would marvel at the well-ordered cosmos. Piety could thus continue in much the same way it had in the past. But there was no longer a ...
... God. In the sec- ond part of the poem, however, Parmenides offers the universe based on “the opinions of the mortals.” Here there are gods: a central female creator god and other gods with more specific portfolios. So, for Parmenides ...
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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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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from ... <span dir=ltr>Jennifer Hecht</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2004 |
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from ... <span dir=ltr>Jennifer Hecht</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2003 |