Doubt: A History
Subtitle: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: September 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9780060097950
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; History of specific subjects; History: World; Historical - General; History; History - General History; Modern - General; Epistemology; History / General; General; Belief and doubt
First sentence: 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 dominance of Classical Greece and that of Classical Rome.