Essays About Doubt

The Many Doubts of Hamlet C.S. Lewis once said that “the world of Hamlet is a world where one has lost one’s way.” This statement has many truths to it for the play opens at midnight, which represents a world where man is essentially lost...

How do fearful and doubtful attitudes influence movements today and what are some commonalities with the attitudes colonists once had? Fear, I believe is the seed that spawns devastation and irrational actions which results in things like war. Doubtful attitudes rarely if ever have a...

Have you ever doubted about how much knowledge people should have in order to be confident with themselves? I always ask myself this kind of questions. I always doubt about my knowledge, my self-assurance and all the things I’ve learned in my life. “We know...

The quote ‘Switch your thinking. Banish the problem. Relish the challenge” appears to be an elementary task. However, in my opinion the task seems deceptive and impossible, due to an intricate challenge of a fatal flaw that has lingered throughout my life: self-doubt. I have...

Doubting is an aspect of thinking. The more we are doubting the more its shows we are doubting. Descartes philosophy greatly drawn much in my reflections in life realities. Rene Descartes really inspire me to his saying “I doubt therefore I exist because when we...

There so many philosophers that made me seek for wisdom. One of those philosopher is Socrates, a well-known Greek philosopher who is credited as one of the founders of western philosophy. Socrates philosophies were very well received by our modern philosophers. Socrates mentioned that human...

There is a new wave in the world of understanding, a wave that is pushing forward the frontiers of conventional philosophies and scientific views of the philosophers. The most exciting aspect of it is that it connects with ancient spiritual understanding about the exact nature...

Philosophy uses reasoning and logic to investigate things humans are experiencing with their existence in life. It studies close reading, critical thinking and analysis in every philosophers they convey. Each philosophers has their own perspectives in teaching philosophy. On how we glance differently within the...

I have always been uncertain to things that I do which also makes me indecisive. I tend to doubt the people around me even my own family. I tend to have second thoughts in choices that I am about to make. I have doubts about...

In his meditations on First Philosophy, the philosopher Descartes takes it upon himself to break down all his previous assumptions in order to rebuild his knowledge with certain truths. In his first meditation, Descartes establishes three reasons for doubt, including the inability to distinguish between...