
- Critical Condition: Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity
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Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, 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 Churchs 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. is a call to action unlike any other.