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Forum: Critical Thinking 09-12-2009, 06:06 AM
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Views: 1,164
Posted By coberst
I challenge the student of mathematics

I challenge the student of mathematics

It appears to me that most people look on math as something with supernatural qualities. I challenge the student of math to develop and post short essays on...
Forum: Critical Thinking 11-11-2007, 02:53 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 981
Posted By coberst
Critical Self-Consciousness

Critical Self-Consciousness

I once asked a professor of philosophy what is philosophy about, she said “philosophy is about radically critical self-consciousness”. I have decided that CT...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-22-2007, 07:06 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 910
Posted By coberst
Lincoln’s philosophy completes the work of the guns

Lincoln’s philosophy completes the work of the guns

In the matter of slavery Lincoln was the basic politician. On this very important issue he was difficult to pin down on specifics. He was quite...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-19-2007, 03:53 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 846
Posted By coberst
Metaphorically thinking

Metaphorically thinking

We commonly think of metaphor as something like analogy. We are trying to explain something to someone and we say this something new is very much like this other something...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-19-2007, 02:48 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,318
Posted By coberst
Re: Democracy, Critical Thinking, & Journalism

And therein is the problem. If a person wishes to learn a new domain of knowledge s/he should find the best spoksperson as a guide and not depend on the opinion of some passing individual. I just...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-19-2007, 06:53 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,318
Posted By coberst
Re: Democracy, Critical Thinking, & Journalism

My point is about the importance of a critical self-consciousness for all citizens in a democracy. We can learn a great deal about the nature of criticism from such a giant as Matthew Arnold. Most...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-18-2007, 01:53 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,318
Posted By coberst
Democracy, Critical Thinking, & Journalism

Democracy, Critical Thinking, & Journalism


The standard teacher/pupil teaching technique accentuates the importance of acquiring knowledge. The Socratic technique accentuates the importance of...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-17-2007, 04:13 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,294
Posted By coberst
Re: I have a strong desire to comprehend stuff

I am a retired engineer with a good bit of formal education and twenty five years of self-learning. I began the self-learning experience while in my mid-forties. I had no goal in mind; I was just...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-17-2007, 04:11 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,294
Posted By coberst
Re: I have a strong desire to comprehend stuff

I do not assume that everyone else thinks as I do. In fact I post because I am confident that the vast majority of the people do not think as I do.
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-16-2007, 04:05 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,294
Posted By coberst
I have a strong desire to comprehend stuff

I have a strong desire to comprehend stuff

I claim that comprehending is a hierarchy and can usefully be thought of as a pyramid. At the base of the pyramid is awareness that is followed by...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-12-2007, 07:19 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 3,273
Posted By coberst
Re: Were we better off in a state of nature?

Well said!
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-9-2007, 06:42 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 3,273
Posted By coberst
Re: Were we better off in a state of nature?

I agree
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-9-2007, 02:29 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 3,273
Posted By coberst
Re: Were we better off in a state of nature?

My statement says that I consider a creature is living in a total state of nature when that creature is controlled by its nature and its instincts. Humans have an ego which stands in the way of...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-8-2007, 07:55 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 3,273
Posted By coberst
Re: Were we better off in a state of nature?

All animals, except humans, live in a total state of nature. All animals, except humans, are guided totally by instinct. Civilization is a mark of this transition from instinct to ego domination of...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-7-2007, 07:32 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 3,273
Posted By coberst
Re: Were we better off in a state of nature?

Bill Moyer has a video wherein he discusses the book “Amish Grace” that you might find to be very interesting regarding the Amish response to their tragedy. Compare that Amish response to their...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-6-2007, 04:20 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 3,273
Posted By coberst
Re: Were we better off in a state of nature?

Perhaps we might learn something imporatnt if we studied the Amish style of living.
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-6-2007, 02:46 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 3,273
Posted By coberst
Were we better off in a state of nature?

Were we better off in a state of nature?

How credible was the concept of the Noble Savage?

The thing is that society is constantly changing. How can we create a stable society within such a...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-4-2007, 04:18 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 898
Posted By coberst
The decider is the ego

The decider is the ego

Humans appear to be the only species of animal that has placed self-consciousness, in the form of what is called the ego, between animal instincts and animal behavior. ...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-3-2007, 02:41 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 984
Posted By coberst
What happens to us when we learn new stuff?

What happens to us when we learn new stuff?

I will tell you what happened to me when I learned new stuff. I assume that most people are affected in the same way.

We must use metaphors and...
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-1-2007, 09:03 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,405
Posted By coberst
Re: Dream and myth: the foundation for depth psychology

Just be patient, I have many interests and have written about them and shall do so again. I go wherever my curiosity takes me.
Forum: Critical Thinking 10-1-2007, 02:49 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,405
Posted By coberst
Re: Dream and myth: the foundation for depth psychology

I think that learning is a process that begins with reading and learning from the best minds that are available. One can exchange opinions with a chum but one learns little from this practice even...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-30-2007, 03:13 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,405
Posted By coberst
Dream and myth: the foundation for depth psychology

Dream and myth: the foundation for depth psychology

Freud hypothesized that dreams were a means for establishing a universal method for studying the human psyche. He felt that dreams provided a...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-29-2007, 01:25 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 986
Posted By coberst
Re: Thinking is part of reality

kilroy

We have in our Western philosophy a traditional theory of faculty psychology wherein our reasoning is a faculty completely separate from the body. “Reason is seen as independent of...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-28-2007, 02:54 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 986
Posted By coberst
Thinking is part of reality

Thinking is part of reality

Our educational system and our culture lie to us. We are taught by our educational system and by our culture that there is thinking and there is reality and that...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-27-2007, 06:42 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 864
Posted By coberst
Re: Popularizers bring ‘Power to the People’

I guess that more than one million individuals visit an Internet discussion forum each day.

Off the top of my head I guess that there are more than 100 Internet discussion boards and that there...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-27-2007, 02:09 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,532
Posted By coberst
Re: Common sense is anchor

Kilroy

This is what I am saying:

At birth an infant has a minimal innate arithmetic ability. This ability to add and subtract small numbers is called subitizing. (I am speaking of a cardinal...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-26-2007, 04:20 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 864
Posted By coberst
Popularizers bring ‘Power to the People’

Popularizers bring ‘Power to the People’

Popularizer is a word I heard historian William Norton Smith use when discussing American Presidents on C-Span. He did not elaborate significantly but it...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-26-2007, 04:16 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 3,379
Posted By coberst
Re: Anti-intellectualism inhibits learning

My goal as a person trying to learn about human nature and why we humans do the things we do is directed not at just knowing a lot of facts but at understanding.

I have for some time been...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-26-2007, 02:52 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,532
Posted By coberst
Re: Common sense is anchor

Kilroy

Our common sense is our intuition. It is what we have collected as a world view. It consists of both what our unconscious and conscious has constructed for us.

In the statement A=A, my...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-26-2007, 12:13 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,532
Posted By coberst
Re: Common sense is anchor

Math is abstract.

We commonly think of metaphor as something like analogy. We are trying to explain something to someone and we say this something new is very much like this other something you...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-26-2007, 02:14 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,532
Posted By coberst
Re: Common sense is anchor

Kilroy

We are creatures who live by abstract ideas. Metaphors are our only way to comprehend this world of symbols in which we live. See what I mean? Have you grasped my meaning?
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-26-2007, 02:11 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,532
Posted By coberst
Re: Common sense is anchor

I think that it is here that CT (Critical Thinking) is an aid. A critical thinker is constantly asking questions, is constantly analyzing. It is questions, curiosity, and caring that leads one on...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-25-2007, 04:36 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,532
Posted By coberst
Common sense is anchor

Common sense is anchor

We live, love, and learn by metaphor. ‘Common sense is anchor’ is, I am convinced, a useful metaphor for learning.

In what sense is common sense an anchor?

An...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-23-2007, 03:53 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,025
Posted By coberst
Technology makes passive life seducing

Technology makes passive life seducing

“The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of specialized knowledge.”...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-23-2007, 03:30 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 3,379
Posted By coberst
Re: Anti-intellectualism inhibits learning

Our vocabulary is our intellectual tool-box. The person with the largest vocabulary dies as the winner. Imagine the difference in what is discovered about reality for the individual with...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-23-2007, 02:34 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 3,379
Posted By coberst
Re: Anti-intellectualism inhibits learning

The following is a comment one reader made:

I noticed this a lot with my daughter's high schools. She went through 3 ... and in two of them, it was incredibly cool to be stupid. There was a very...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-22-2007, 12:10 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 3,379
Posted By coberst
Re: Anti-intellectualism inhibits learning

Goodness!!
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-22-2007, 08:00 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 3,379
Posted By coberst
Re: Anti-intellectualism inhibits learning

The following is a reply from a reader.

Below is a link to a very good book that you may enjoy, written by Richard Hofstadter. This book is multifaceted and the title is somewhat misleading...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-22-2007, 03:00 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 3,379
Posted By coberst
Re: Anti-intellectualism inhibits learning

yes
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-21-2007, 01:11 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 3,379
Posted By coberst
Anti-intellectualism inhibits learning

Anti-intellectualism inhibits learning

A large percentage (studies suggest over 90%) of the meaning we derive from communication, we derive from the non-verbal cues that the other person gives.
...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-20-2007, 02:50 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,263
Posted By coberst
Re: Do corporations have any moral responsibility?

It seems to me that when a corporation does its business only within a nation the citizens will keep them from egregious foul behavior but when they become international all bets are off. ...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-20-2007, 04:39 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,263
Posted By coberst
Do corporations have any moral responsibility?

Do corporations have any moral responsibility?

The Chinese police state is a great investment says US hedge funds.

The US economy may be on decline but US hedge funds investors considers the...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-19-2007, 06:00 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 972
Posted By coberst
I am interested in disinterested knowledge

I am interested in disinterested knowledge

Disinterested knowledge is the energy bunny. It generates the energy for exploration and for overcoming some of the inhibitions consciousness places on...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-18-2007, 05:31 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,165
Posted By coberst
Re: The leap of faith into absolutes

Framing the issue: Petraeous—Betray us

George Lakoff, linguist, cognitive scientist, author of “Philosophy in the Flesh” was the mind behind the ad. He has framed the issue that will focus upon...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-17-2007, 07:46 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 817
Posted By coberst
Re: When me becomes I

devonin

I hope to arouse the curiosity and interest of the reader to important ideas in the hope that reader will go to the books or to the Internet to add to the discussion of the ideas. It is...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-17-2007, 12:42 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 817
Posted By coberst
When me becomes I

When me becomes I

A child’s symbolic action world is built from the outside in. We are sad because we cry; we do not cry because we are sad. Only when we ‘look’ at our self do we know what is...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-16-2007, 09:16 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,165
Posted By coberst
Re: The leap of faith into absolutes

We live in two different worlds.

I recently had occasion to hang out in the waiting area of St Joseph Hospital in Asheville for a few hours. I was free to walk many of the corridors and rest in...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-15-2007, 11:38 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,165
Posted By coberst
Re: The leap of faith into absolutes

Kilroy

Science is idolized as a god that will save us when we use up all the oil, when we feel the impact of global warming. Science will always be there to correct for our errors. After we...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-15-2007, 02:19 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,165
Posted By coberst
The leap of faith into absolutes

The leap of faith into absolutes.

Karl Popper authored the book “The Open Society and Its Enemies”. The concept Popper illustrates in this book sounds much like the concept of a liberal democracy...
Forum: Critical Thinking 09-13-2007, 04:02 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,033
Posted By coberst
The self is not physical, but symbolic

The self is not physical, but symbolic

What are symbols and why are symbols meaningful to me? One answer might be “the self is not physical, it is symbolic”—Becker.

Mathematics is, I think, a...
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