Critical Thinkers: Methods for Clear Thinking and Analysis in Everyday Situations from the Greatest Thinkers in History

After reading this book, I find myself considering more how these masters of critical thinking throughout history might solve today's problems, and this book gave me a great introduction and reference point to continue learning more about both the history of critical thinking, and it's evolution around the world through time, focusing on ten of the greatest minds to tackle the world's problems, while teaching others to share that same curiosity and responsibility. The most important thing learned is that we can solve any problem with reason, and we just have to be open to asking the right questions.

This book focuses on well known philosophers like Socrates, Aristotle, Sir Francis Bacon, etc and how their thinking applies to our modern thinking. One of my favorite sections of the book was Descartes and how anyone seeking the truth through critical thinking must question everything even basic things learned as a child because as a child you acquired beliefs and opinions through instinct, sensory data and dogma. This book is put together brilliantly and is one of Albert Rutherford's best works so I'd definitely recommend you pick it up.

This book provides an interesting review of philosophers and the history of critical thinking. For me, the amount of detail on each philosopher was too brief and the application of each philosopher contribution could have been explored a lot more thoroughly. However, this level of detail might be quite appropriate for people who are initiated to philosophy. If you have not taken a philosophy course in college, this book can serve as a nice introduction. You might just discover that philosophy is more relevant than you thought and can provide assistance in critical thinking about modern issues.

This book kept me engaged the entire time. I'm excited to go on this journey of critical thinking. A must read. It laid a good foundation.

Very enjoyable read and I good self reflection on one’s own way of thinking.I do highly recommend anyone that has a interested in this area to read this book.

Managed to finish the book

I was always looking for a book like this on critical thinking. Your usual critical thinking book is filled with cherry picked good ideas on the topic but never organized in a thinker to thinker way.Here the author presented 10 great critical thinkers in a chronological-ideological fashion. I appreciated that the author chose thinkers from different schools of thought. The presented thinkers approach critical thinking sometimes from completely different angles yet they all arrive to the same conclusion - that our thoughts should be questioned from time to time. The entire book is a celebration of the essence of critical thinking - familiarizing with opposing thoughts and finding something in them we can connect with.

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