Critical Condition: Replacing Critical Thinking With Creativity - Brossura

Finn, Patrick

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ISBN 10: 1771121572 ISBN 13: 9781771121576

Casa editrice: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a “critical thinker.”

The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates’ death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical “attack” on a perceived opponent. From the Roman militarization of debate to the medieval Church’s use of defence as a means of forcing confession and submission, the early phases of critical thinking were bound up in a type of attack that Finn suggests does not best serve intellectual inquiry. Recent developments have seen critical thinking become an ideology rather than a critical practice, with levels of debate devolving to the point where most debate becomes ad hominem. Far from arguing that we abandon critical inquiry, the author suggests that we emphasize a more open, loving system of engagement that is not only less inherently violent but also more robust when dealing with vastly more complex networks of information.

This book challenges long-held beliefs about the benefits of critical thinking, which is shown to be far too linear to deal with the twenty-first century world. Critical Condition is a call to action unlike any other.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1771121572
• ISBN 13: 9781771121576
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 131
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile