book
The Courage to Be
Tillich, Paul. The Courage to Be. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1952.
Why this matters here
Tillich’s The Courage to Be frames courage as affirmation of being amid anxiety and nonbeing, contrasting authentic commitment with anxiety managed as false certainty. The Discipline of Uncertainty uses that contrast when certainty fails: discipline refuses irony and cynicism as total verdicts and keeps commitment without prophecy—shared seriousness rather than shared fate scripts.
