Project X for Fortified
lev_ra1. Identify and examine intellectual confidence in reason. Present examples from society that involve a failure to trust reason.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
2. Discuss intellectual cowardice and then provide an example of a deeply held belief that, when attacked, causes a strong emotional response in you.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
3. Explain your own ideas about what critical thinking is.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
4. Describe the difference between weak-sense and strong-sense critical thinkers.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
5. Discuss the differences between the ways that humans naturally think and the ways that humans think critically. Explain at least two natural modes of thought in your own mind that you feel you need to confront with some deep-sense critical thinking.
Your response should be at least 500 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Match the following with the correct letter.
1. Intellectual conformity ____
2. Intellectual autonomy ____
3. Intellectual Distrust of Reason _____
4. Intellectual Confidence in Reason _____
5. Intellectual laziness _____
6. Intellectual perseverance ____
7. Intellectual hypocrisy
8. Intellectual integrity ____
9. Intellectual self-centeredness ____
10. Intellectual cowardice ____
11. Intellectual courage ____
12. Intellectual humility ____
13. Intellectual arrogance ____
14. Egocentrism ____
15. Critical thinking ____
Letters below
A. |
Thinking for oneself rather than uncritically accepting the views of others. |
B. |
The tendency to ignore other people’s ideas, thought, and feelings because their ideas do not address that with which one is interested. |
C. |
The tendency to feel threatened by logical thinking and scientific explanation, often the result of fear or the pain involved in analyzing one’s beliefs. |
D. |
The tendency to view all things from one’s own perspective, even when there is evidence against one’s position. |
E. |
Awareness of the limits of human knowledge and a special focus on being aware of situations in which one is likely to be self-deceived due to native egocentrism. |
F. |
The tendency to give up the search for truth or understanding when difficult circumstances arise. |
G. |
Striving to create disciplined thinking as well as holding oneself to the same standards that one holds others to. |
H. |
The fear of considering ideas that do not match our own. |
I. |
The art of thinking about one’s thinking with the goal of improving thinking. |
J. |
The failure to hold oneself to the same intellectual standards that one holds others to. |
K. |
The tendency of the human mind to think that it knows more than it does, or that is in possession of the TRUTH. |
L. |
The tendency to passively accept the views of others and agree with mass positions on issues. |
M. |
The willingness to face ideas and positions on issues that directly threaten our own ideas and beliefs. |
N. |
The ability to push on in the face of intellectual adversity in order to understand more about the truth of an issue or idea. |
O. |
The tendency to think that the world is a better place when people learn to think for themselves, when they draw reasonable conclusions, and when they think logically. |