Doubt is a Privilege When Faith is a Choice.
by Mihika Malhotra · 3 min read
To doubt is to be, but who exactly has the privilege to doubt?
To doubt is to take a genuine pause before accepting the fact in front of you. It is to question what appears truly certain and to ask whether there might be another explanation for the dilemma presented. We often experience doubt as uncomfortable because certainty gives us something that uncertainty cannot: stability. To be certain is to feel that the ground beneath us is solid. To doubt is to discover that the ground is actually lava.
Still, in a philosophical regard, doubt is not necessarily the enemy of knowledge. It can also indicate the beginning of it. So, to doubt in this case becomes an interruption. It prevents the first answer that pops into someone’s head from becoming the final truth. Philosophy, at its most fundamental level, begins with disruption. It embodies the refusal to accept something simply because it has always been accepted.
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