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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... speak of 'air' and thus they called the whole 'Zeus' and they said: he knows everything, he gives and takes, he is king of every- thing.”11 That comment that “we Greeks now speak of 'air'” is the heart of his thesis: now that we've got ...
... speaking , because it made sense . It was a stunning insight . Democritus's atoms fell into an orderly pattern by chance , but he ex- plained that once a pattern is established , the progress of things is not entirely accidental . The ...
... speak of life after death without recourse to mys- tery rites or the intervention of anthropomorphic gods ; what he'd offered here was a hypothesis , a theory , not a story , not something someone had heard . In the Timaeus that is ...
... and seeing with his mind, thinking much ... [This God] could hear all that mortals speak, And have the power to see their every act. . . . With words Like these he introduced this most alluring doctrine , Concealing 20 DOUBT: A HISTORY.
... speaking. Once we pull that apart a bit, the action of talking becomes more important than the question of whether the talking is working—because we know, going in, that the talking is not working. That said, one might as well pray ...
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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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