Critical thinking is for everyone (old stuff #3)

"We can use our own minds at this point as opposed to relying on scientist to do our critical thinking for us.” So if this is a call to think for yourself, do you think critically?

Critical thinking is the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment. When you evaluate an issue, do you approach it with objective analysis in order to form a judgement? I would like to propose two things in this post. First, truth can be known. Sounds simple, but we are currently living in a culture that holds the question as the answer and the answer in question. Our culture questions what can be known, and in indecision, it makes a decision to uphold eternal skepticism as a virtue. So I will ask the question again, do you think critically?  Do you discern the truth about something through an objective analysis of the issue? 

The second thing I would ask you as you think critically about an issue would be' "is it livable?" Can you live out the judgement you have formed about an issue? I think sometimes we will ask the right questions, and come up with an answer that upon first inspection gives us an answer we are looking for. The problem is not just the fact that our answer is not objective, but that it is not livable. Does your answer give you hope or comfort? Have you examined the arguments, and counter arguments? 

I want to encourage everyone who says that philosophy is not for them to realize that this is something we all do everyday when we form our worldviews. Since we all have a worldview of some kind, I would encourage you to have a well thought out worldview. Don't be afraid to ask the question, and don't be too lazy to seek the answer. If you seek truth, I am confident you will find it in the one who said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.”