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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.
When we look for doubt among the ancients, in the West we are going to find the most lively cases in the Hellenistic period-the few hundred years between the dominance of Classical Greece and that of Classical Rome. Read the first page
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Whether you have religious or other spiritual convictions or tend to agnosticism or even atheism, this book will open up your thinking without insulting your intelligence or shouting you down.
Did feel it assumed readers would know nothing of the geography of the "old world". Came away knowing more, but wanting to know even more.
Can't help but mention also that the cover photo makes her look absolutely gorgeous!
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