DOUBT: Why certainty is the first step on the path to fanaticism and why doubt opens our hearts to wisdom and tolerance - Softcover

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We live in an age in which there appears to be no such thing as absolute truth. People seek comfort in political, religious and cultural ideologies which seem to offer a solution to this current morass of relative values. Unfortunately, uncritical acceptance of these ideologies, beyond a shadow of a doubt, can lead the way to a dangerous intolerance. There is, however, a valuable tool which we can use to submit any aspect of life to critical reason and defeat all forms of intolerance: doubt. Doubt widens our horizons and enables us to seek a higher truth which will set us free. Bertrand Russell said: “The fundamental cause of trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt”. He was right: in fact the best teachers I have had in life were not the ones who provided certain answers to my doubts, but those who questioned my certainties...

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