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IVYT 10404H My way of Thinking about Critical Thinking in Today's World
Session 16
Assignment Name: Final Essay Questions
Student Name: Michelle Kauffman
Date you submit your work: May 4, 2012

The Assignment: In essay form, address the following questions:

1. What is critical thinking? First the word critical comes from two Greek roots, Kriticos which means discerning judgment and the other Greek root is kriterion which means standards. The text book from this class has described Critical Thinking as, “explicit thinking aimed at well-founded judgment, utilizing appropriate evaluation standards in an attempt to determine true worth, merit, or value of something.” The National …show more content…

He established the importance of asking deep questions that probe profoundly into thinking before we accept ideas as worthy of belief. Socrates’ practice was followed by the critical thinking of Plato (who recorded Socrates’ thought), Aristotle, and the Greek skeptics, all of whom emphasized that things are often very different from what they appear to be and that only the trained mind is prepared to see through the way things look to us on the surface (delusive appearances) to the way they really are beneath the surface (the deeper realities of life). http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/a-brief-history-of-the-idea-of-critical-thinking/408 3. Give three examples of where stopping to think critically would help you throughout your lifetime. Identify an intellectual characteristic (pages 194-208) that would be used in each example. WOW! I have so many ideas but to name just three I would have to pick Religion, buying a home, and employment. The first is going to be Religion. Using the Intellectual Autonomy, from the text book states that we do not depend on others when deciding what to believe and what to reject. But influenced by others views on t he subject and that there is believable evidence to support the views. I am my own person and I believe in God and know my feelings and thoughts are really just between me and God. Nothing else matters when it comes down to this. I have looked into other religions and churches but have always come home to

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