Prudent Doubt
摘要
In the great letter of justification Lessing sends to his father in late May 1749, he strikes religio-philosophical tones. To his mother, he had described the acknowledgement of his own shortcomings as an experience of existential crisis that would eventually turn out for the better or worse; in his letter to the learned theologian, he now defends his chosen way of life as the path of ‘prudent doubt’