Criticism of critical thinking

Stojanov, Trajce (2022) Criticism of critical thinking. Panoniana: Journal of Humanities, 6 (1/2022). pp. 151-166.

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Abstract

The text deals with the term “critical thinking”, so popular in today’s
educational theories and even amongst philosophers. If a critic should be
radical, they should be consistent, in this case, meaning that one who insist
on critical thinking should subject the critical thinking itself to criticism. The
hypothesis is that this term is logically inconsistent but also problematic in a
broader philosophical, metaphysical, and anthropological context. Namely, we
will try to show that this currently fashionable term “critical thinking “is the
result of an overarching “scientism” dominant in the interpretation of the world
and especially in the interpretation of human and social phenomena. The notion
of “critical thinking “, in our opinion, is a direct result of today’s predominant
scientific culture derived from the capitalist, economic logic that reduces the
world to statistics and thus a human being to an exclusively rational being.
Human nature is far more complex than a rational calculus needed just to improve
productivity in economic processes. This reductionist logic, unfortunately, also
became omnipresent in today’s philosophical culture.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Educational sciences Humanities > Philosophy, ethics and religion
Divisions:	Faculty of Educational Science
Depositing User:	Trajce Stojanov
Date Deposited:	03 Apr 2023 09:46
Last Modified:	03 Apr 2023 09:46
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/31585

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