Full Idea
What stops or holds us back in metaphysics is a love of certainty.
Gist of Idea
The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics
Source
Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1814)
Book Reference
Joubert,Joseph: 'Notebooks', ed/tr. Auster,Paul [nyrb 2005], p.143
A Reaction
This is a prominent truth from the age of Descartes, but may have diminished in the twenty-first century. The very best metaphysicians (e.g. Aristotle and Lewis) always end in a trail of dots when things become unsure.