"Thought and thinking." . . "Thought and thinking Study and teaching (Higher)" . . . "\"Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a \"critical thinker.\" The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates' death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical \"attack\" on a perceived opponent. From the Roman militarization of debate to the medieval Church's use of defence as a means of forcing confession and submission, the early phases of critical thinking were bound up in a type of attack that Finn suggests does not best serve intellectual inquiry. Recent developments have seen critical thinking become an ideology rather than a critical practice, with levels of debate devolving to the point where most debate becomes ad hominem. Far from arguing that we abandon critical inquiry, the author suggests that we emphasize a more open, loving system of engagement that is not only less inherently violent but also more robust when dealing with vastly more complex networks of information. This book challenges long-held beliefs about the benefits of critical thinking, which is shown to be far too linear to deal with the twenty-first century world.\" -- Publisher's description." . . . . . . "Critical condition : replacing critical thinking with creativity" . . . . . "Critical thinking." . . "Creative thinking Study and teaching (Higher)" . . . . "Creative thinking." . . "Critical thinking Study and teaching (Higher)" . .