Books by Ninian Smart and Richard Hecht (editors)
Sacred Texts of the World
by Ninian Smart and Richard Hecht (editors)
Ancient civilisations all groped for answers to big questions, and came up with all sorts of fantasies – but he fact they groped with these questions is important, because it means that the relevant issues were central to people’s concerns.
Interviews where books by Ninian Smart and Richard Hecht (editors) were recommended
The best books on The Emergence of Understanding, recommended by Peter Atkins
Science is the only way to make sense of the world around us and the scientific method the only way to establish truth, says Peter Atkins, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Author of several chemistry textbooks as well as many popular science books, he recommends books that track the evolution of our understanding about the world around us, starting with an anthology of sacred texts and ending with Shakespeare.
