x6.1: The greatest challenge to the intellect, according to
the Socratic Nicholas of Cusa, was what he called
‘learned ignorance’. 177
6.2: It is better to think that God is a monster than
that the problem of evil can be solved – the
message of Job? 188
7.1: Plato’s Academy aimed at personal transformation
as well as careful understanding. 208
7.2: Michel de Montaigne ‘assayed’ his life in the
privacy of the tower of the Château de Montaigne,
Périgord. 218
8.1: Leslie Stephen’s agnosticism found expression
in his love of the Alps. 247
8.2: Sigmund Freud’s ‘royal road’ to the unknown
unconscious borrows from the Christian tradition
of radical uncertainty. 251
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