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The Horridness of This Book Cannot Be Overstated
Forgetting for a moment the multiple strategies used by the authors to stretch what could have been a pamphlet into 39 4"x6" pages...Forgetting the bizarre and superfluous diagrams...Forgetting the sloppy and inconsistent use of terms (e.g., "logicalness" rather than logic or "groupishness" rather than group think, or the unpredictable mixing of "virtues," "traits," "attributes," "dispositions," and "characteristics of mind" to describe the same concept, or the lack of consistent sequences when describing thinking steps)...Forgetting the out-of-touch examples used by the authors ("Do you like to go to the opera? Which is your favorite?" Yes, they actually wrote that)...There can be no forgetting that the authors' "book" continuously contradicts itself in relation to critical thought. For a few examples:1. The authors implore readers to have "faith" that "people can learn to think for themselves" (26). This statement contradicts the author's emphasis on empirical fact and leverages grossly (but typical to this book) unfair assumptions at readers. The authors' "faith" reaches unconscionable lows when they argue that humans will never advance until they create "critical societies" but are prevented by themselves from creating those societies because most people are "enslaved within social conventions" and do not "aspire to the ideal of critical thought" (46).2. The authors continuously state pseudo-empirical facts without any proof; in fact, there are no citations in the entire book. For example, the authors state that there are "universal intellectual standards," then list 8, then 10, then 9 of them (18-21), changing not only the list each time, but even changing the names of the virtues!3. In arguably the crux of critical thinking, the clear delineation of ethics, the authors provide no guidance other than "As we face problems in our lives, we must distinguish the ethical from the unethical" (48).4. Combining the authors' misuse of language and their bias against humans, they write that people "never come to think well within any subject and have no sense of what it is to think beyond subject-matter compartments." I'm not sure what that means, except that they do not think humanity has any capacity for thinking. Or compartments?5. The authors claim to want to create a critical society--but only at the cost of $10 per person for what any critically thinking person could find for free and more logically and articulately stated across the internet.I could go on, but my critique would grow longer than this book, and the book simply isn't worth it.
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BLD
A lot of information packed into a short read
Reviewed in Canada on December 14, 2021
Mathieu P.
key basics of critical thinking
Reviewed in France on September 22, 2022
