Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily DickinsonHarper Collins, 28.9.2010 - 1572 sivua 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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... existence of the gods. They were an obvious part of the world; invisible but made apparent by the authority of the poets, the phe- nomena of the natural world and the heavens, the experience of their wor- ship, and occasional dreams and ...
... existence; not 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 ...
... existence of the gods. The Greek gods were always understood as having come into existence at some point, so it's possible that he was trying to puzzle out the truth about them without really questioning them as an absolute reality. His ...
... existence of another world. Plato famously outlawed poetry, and why? Because the great poets Homer and Hesiod had sung about the unphilosophical and quite immoral gods of Olympus. Plato did not, however, mind a kind of poetry in his ...
... existence , but they do lack it . What was real , then , was what one learned through sensation . With Aristotle's works , as with Plato's , we are unsure of the progression or dates of composition . What's more , none of Aristotle's ...
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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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