Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily DickinsonHarper Collins, 2010 M09 28 - 1572 páginas 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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... bodies, including Helios, the sun, were just glowing lumps of metal. Other people had this information—the meteorite didn't fall in Anaxagoras's backyard—but he was a philosopher and a rationalist and he came to conclusions that were ...
... body. In the late sixth century Pythagoras of Samos brought the idea of immortal souls into prominence, and later the Orphic mystery religion made much of it as well, so WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ZEUS AND HERA?, 600 BCE–1 CE 13.
... bodies here below. Both move and seem purposeful in a way that separates them from almost everything else: rocks don't move, wind seems random. That suggests that the motive forces of human beings and the motive forces of stars and ...
... body, what could that something be other than a kind of mobile remembering? Plato understood the soul as having knowledge about mathematics as well. In this context, a life spent studying and seeking truth was the ultimate religious ...
... body of work has been that we do not know the order in which he wrote it. Because there are great differences among the various works, it is very frustrating not to be able to say which was a youthful notion, which a mature claim, and ...
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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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