The willingness to face and fairly assess ideas, beliefs, or viewpoints to which we have not given a serious hearing, regardless of our strong negative reactions to them.
This courage arises from the recognition that ideas considered dangerous or absurd are sometimes rationally justified (in whole or in part), and that conclusions or beliefs espoused by those around us or inculcated in us are sometimes false or misleading.
To determine for ourselves which is which, we must not passively and uncritically "accept" what we have "learned."
Intellectual courage helps us to come to see some truth in some ideas considered dangerous and absurd and some distortion or falsity in some ideas strongly held in our social group.
It takes courage to be true to our own thinking because questioning cherished beliefs is difficult, and the penalties for non-conformity are often severe
marto answered the question on April 30, 2019 at 09:19
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