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It doesn't make you a great thinker, but it is certainly a requirement. it is necessary but not sufficient. Did Einstein make relativity or Nietzsche "Thus Sp
by gmadsen 6y ago
It doesn't make you a great thinker, but it is certainly a requirement.
it is necessary but not sufficient.
Did Einstein make relativity or Nietzsche "Thus Spake Zarathustra " in a vacuum?
- krageon 6y ago> it is certainly a requirement It can't be a requirement, because at some point there was a first great thinker. That one appeared in a nominal vacuum because otherwise they wouldn't be the first.
- gmadsen 6y agoThat is categorically untrue. Evolutionary, humans are a social species. My comment is it doesn't happen in a vacuum, which is obvious to the extent that it is impossible to live in a vacuum. A man that somehow survived being raised by wolves would be tremendously irrevocably mentally stunted. We have evolved to learn language from the people around us as children.
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- kortilla 6y agoWow, that’s incredibly naive. It is absolutely not a requirement. Critical thinking and logical reasoning are relatively basic skills. Once you learn them, reading about other people doing it just doesn’t matter for improving them. Einstein did not read about Kierkegaard to form theories on relativity. You’re confusing studying philosophy with critical thinking. You can think critically with a few basic logic rules and zero knowledge on existentialism.