- Library Binding: 551 pages
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1435290801
- ISBN-13: 978-1435290808
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"A remarkably wide ranging history."--Booklist (starred review)
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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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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 dominace of Classical Greece and that of Classical Rome. Read the first page
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Possibly the best and most balanced review of the need for doubt rather than certainty in discovering truth, morality and tolerance.
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.
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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent history of doubt, and more importantly doubters.
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.
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.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I particularly enjoyed the way it covered eastern philosophies, which I had always thought of as religious. The early chapters on Jewish scepticism were very interesting too. Personally I would have liked more on the persecution of sceptics and freethinkers by the church - she seems to think we just know this -- but this is a quibble really.
Can't help but mention also that the cover photo makes her look absolutely gorgeous!
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