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| By teaching you the context to an apple, that person, school, institution or culture wields power. Not if you are capable of critical thinking.
by rizzom5000 3y ago
| By teaching you the context to an apple, that person, school, institution or culture wields power.
Not if you are capable of critical thinking.
- wolframhempel 3y agoBut you're thinking doesn't happen in a vacuum. If you grow up in a Marxist society, "critical thinking" means applying critical theory and a framework of class conflict to new problems. In traditional east Asia, critical thinking might mean reflecting on a problem through a Confucianist or Taoist lens. In the West, critical thinking means approaching problems through natural philosophy and the scientific method.
- rizzom5000 3y agoThat's not how I define critical thinking at all. Blind adherence to Marxism, Taoism or any other ideology is the antithesis of critical thinking. Science is not like these things, and I believe that Marxists and Taoists would also consider science as separate from the ideologies they espouse. I honestly don't know how someone could be simultaneously scientifically illiterate and capable of critical thinking.