Doubt a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
In this sweeping history, Jennifer Michael Hecht celebrates doubt as an engine of creativity and as an alternative to the political and intellectual dangers of certainty -- Just as belief has its own history featuring people whose unique expressions of faith have forever changed the world, doubt has...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[San Francisco] :
HarperSanFrancisco, cop. 2003
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b23179144*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Doubt is no shadow : a quiz and a guide to the question
- Whatever happened to Zeus and Hera?, 600 BCE-1 CE : Greek doubt
- Smacking the temple, 600 BCE-1 CE : doubt and the ancient Jews
- What the Buddha saw, 600 BCE-1 CE: ancient doubt in Asia
- When in Rome in doubt, 50 BCE-1 CE : empire of reason
- Christian doubt, Zen, Elisha, and Hypatia, 1-800 CE : late-classical mix
- Medieval doubt loops-the-loop, 800-1400 : Muslims to Jews to Christians
- The printing press and the Age of Martyrs, 1400-1600 : Renaissance and inquisition
- Sunspots and White House doubters, 1600-1800 : revolutions in the authority of reason
- Doubt's bid for a better work, 1800-1900 : freethinking in the age of science and reform
- Principles of uncertainty, 1900- : the new cosmopolitan
- The joy of doubt : ethics, logic, mood
