Essays on Doubt

In the preface to his 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt, American playwright John Patrick Shanley (1950- ) argues that to experience doubt, regardless of whether it relates to one’s own actions and convictions, or those of others, requires more courage than certainty. Doubt, he asserts,…

Modern philosophy often casts doubt and certainty as polar opposites: while doubt describes an uncertainty with respect to accepting a given proposition, certainty is the acceptance of a proposition without doubt. Rene Descartes, the father of this field, believed that what we regard as knowledge…

Life is all about opportunities and your approach towards those opportunities. It is up to you whether you take the chance and prove your worth through smart work in the right dimension and hard work with determination or doubt your capabilities and fear that you…