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Why Be Critical?
Title: Why Be Critical?
Category: Recreation & Sports / Health & Beauty
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Why Be Critical?
I. INTRODUCTION
Since critical thinking is evidently more difficult, more troublesome, than ordinary, garden-variety thinking, the question that naturally arises is, why bother. Why not just say, "Forget it...I'll think (and do, and be) what I want?" This kind of question is not anything new -- Plato, for instance, has Socrates raise a similar question in the Republic, namely, "Why be just?"
In this paper I will consider several issues that I take to be related to the justification of critical thinking. The first issue …showed first 85 words of 4509 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 4509 total…of morality. This is so because it is critical thinking that enables one to solve particular moral-realm problems.
Similarly, outside the moral realm, rationality can be justified pragmatically, in the Deweyan sense, as the tendency to employ the means by which one is able to solve problems, rather than merely self-justifying, as Siegel claims. And critical thinking would thus be justified as an instrumental value, the activity necessary to achieve desired ends, including the generally desired ends that such achievement not lead to disastrous consequences.
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