Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily DickinsonHarper Collins, 28 wrz 2010 - 1572 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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... divine . So philosophy overthrew the gods right away . It also spoke of a single God right away , but this philosophical God was very con- ceptual , as much a matter of physics as metaphysics . Heraclitus , another of the great pre ...
... divine cares for man, for the individual man? Here a wound was opened in practical religion which would never close again.7 Philosophers could conjure proofs of God, but it was God 5 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ZEUS AND HERA?, 600 BCE –1 CE.
... divine , best summed up by the question " Well , if there are no gods , why do so many people have religious experiences ? ” His answer was that when the gods , or suggestions of the gods , show up in dreams and visions , it is because ...
... divine beings or who teach doctrines about things in the sky.” While Anaxagoras had gone too far for some in talking about the sun as a hot rock, his other ideas doubting the pantheon were too common to be very shocking. At about the ...
... divine origins of the command . There is no reason to doubt his hon- esty : Socrates wasn't fighting for his life — he would not have been given the hemlock had he merely agreed to stop teaching . Still , there is a reason he was ...
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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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