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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... suggests that nothing available to humanity could serve as trustworthy or sufficient proof of the gods' existence; not tradition, nor experience, nor contemplation. THIS SEEMS UNLIKELY Pantheon religions have some very attractive traits ...
... suggest it was self - confident , almost teasing , and very public . He revealed the secret rituals of the Eleusinian mystery religion to everyone and “ thus made them ordinary , ” that is , he purposefully demystified a cherished ...
... suggests that even his accusers did not think him particularly atheistic , just disruptive and antitraditionalist . From Plato and others we know that Socrates respected the traditional rites of piety . At his famous trial , Socrates ...
... suggest that the soul much outlasts the 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 ...
... suggests that the motive forces of human beings and the motive forces of stars and planets are essentially the same. We human beings have mind and we are animated. The heavens are animated and much more magnificently than we, so Plato ...
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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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