Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emil, (Paperback)

from gregtmills

Hecht does freethinker apologists a great service here. She creates an eloquent and exhaustive account of the process of doubt through history. For the most part, the people she depicts here are skeptics, rather than cynics. Their humanistic values come from their own evaluations and struggles wi...

from wirkman

I am surprised no on LibraryThing owns the book, much less reviewed it. This is a fine history doubt about the supernatural. It is competently written, and explores a wealth of material, including a few figures from the "believers" camp who offered unexpected contributions to the growing literatu...

from Qshio

A good read, but more importantly, a really solid education; Not simply in terms of the history of doubters, but the history of, well, thought. Of philosophy. For someone who didn't quite get the education he might have liked, this book is a great tour through different ways of thinking about the...

from Citizenjoyce

Hecht's premise is that throughout history humans have tried to endow the universe with the human ideals of justice, compassion and love and that, for more than 2000 years, there have been those who doubt not only that the universe is human-like but even that we exist at all. The book compares we...

from Qshio

A good read, but more importantly, a really solid education; Not simply in terms of the history of doubters, but the history of, well, thought. Of philosophy. For someone who didn't quite get the education he might have liked, this book is a great tour through different ways of thinking about the...