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.
An edition of Doubt: A History
(2003)
Doubt
a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
1st ed.
by Jennifer Hecht, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Jennifer Michael Hecht, and Martha Harmon Pardee
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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 a vibrant story and tradition with its own saints martyrs, and sages.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-528) and index.
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