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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... kind of theis- tic religion to explain the universe within the context of its human experi- ence. All that has survived of Protagoras's Concerning the Gods is the first sen- tence, but it packs a punch. “About the gods I cannot say ...
... kind of pun- ishment for doubt. Set up about 438 BCE , the law against Anaxagoras's atheism held that society must “denounce those who do not believe in the divine beings or who teach doctrines about things in the sky.” While Anaxagoras ...
... kind of care for the universe, as we do over our affairs, but on a supreme scale. Above these gods, Plato reasoned, there must be a mind that created the whole universe, including these visible gods, and that must be a creator god ...
... kind of mobile remembering? Plato understood the soul as having knowl- edge about mathematics as well. In this context, a life spent studying and seeking truth was the ultimate religious life. Seeking truth—whether in the realm of math ...
... kind of poetry in his philosophy. Although he tried to decipher the world rationally, he also used marvelously engaging stories to illustrate his ideas. In his “Parable of the Cave,” in the Republic, Plato described a lesson given by ...
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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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