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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