Mary Gordon has said \"The ability to question, the ability to take a skeptical
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Question
Mary Gordon has said "The ability to question, the ability to take a skeptical position, is absolutely central to my understanding of myself and my understanding of myself as a religious person. It's very important to experience doubt. I think faith without doubt is just either nostalgia or a kind of addiction." Discuss the extent to which this perspective is philosophical in nature. What makes it so, or not? Do you agree with it? Can you extrapolate the last line to other issues in philosophy or life?
Explanation / Answer
Mary Gordon believes that a person has a self-assessed image,perception and thinking about one-self to judge and analyse the situations accordingly as good or bad depending upon the person's ability to decipher and barrier such a thinking as enjoyable for the sake of pleasure and providing heavy monetary profits and income which is quite not possible in regular small jobs even at the disposal of religion and customs which are also considered factors when the ability of a person to rise is considered in a good or bad scenario as it seems from perception and analysis of someone else criticising that situation as subject not depending upon one's own view,attributes, characteristics and analysis and easily perceived by others as a common perception which may itself be hidden from the real truth and situations of life, for example--the following of christianity is secondary if friendship is considered which is a priority and primary objective, the depiction of enjoyment and personification of self-beauty which is not easy to conquer demands a lot of self-respect and esteem which may not be visible in perception and thinking of others and may be exploited in real life situations just for the sake of enjoyment without understanding the hardwork and dedication required to achieve beauty and confidence in very high work profile jobs including media and advertisement.The attainment of such state by humans can be agreed as far as it only displays and gets appreciated by big persons in society without exploitation and indulgence in crime and misbehavior in society.