{"id":258147,"date":"2024-09-03T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/bertrand-russells-10-essential-rules-of-critical-thinking\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:36","slug":"bertrand-russells-10-essential-rules-of-critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/bertrand-russells-10-essential-rules-of-critical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertrand Russell&#8217;s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"567\" alt=\"img_3497\" class=\"wp-image-34977 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3497.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3497.jpg 756w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3497-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3497-370x278.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3497-570x428.jpg 570w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3497.jpg\" alt=\"img_3497\" class=\"wp-image-34977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3497.jpg 756w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3497-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3497-370x278.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3497-570x428.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Bertrand Russell\u2019s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by <strong>Terry Heick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a field of study that explores the nature of knowledge, Philosophy has had a surprisingly small impact on education.<\/p>\n<p>Most formal academic \u2018platforms\u2019 like public schools and universities tend to parse knowledge into content areas\u2013what is being learned\u2013rather than how and why it is being learned. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy. Psychology, Neurology, and even Anthropology all have had a louder voice in \u2018education,\u2019 which may explain why critical thinking seems to be so often missing from most school and curriculum design.<\/p>\n<p>There are exceptions, of course. John Dewey is one of the central figures in modern Western education. British philosopher\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2dbQtmu\">Bertrand Russell<\/a>, too, was interested in how people think and learn, and for a 1951 piece in New York Times Magazine created a convenient itemized list we might follow as a kind of set of \u2018rules\u2019 for for critical thinking (he called them \u2018commandments\u2019\u2013long story).<\/p>\n<p><b>Bertrand Russell\u2019s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:<\/i><\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.<\/li>\n<li>Do not think it worthwhile to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.<\/li>\n<li>Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.<\/li>\n<li>When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it <\/li>\n<li>by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.<\/li>\n<li>Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.<\/li>\n<li>Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.<\/li>\n<li>Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.<\/li>\n<li>Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the <\/li>\n<li>former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.<\/li>\n<li>Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.<\/li>\n<li>Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool\u2019s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><i>Bertrand Russell\u2019s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/critical-thinking\/bertrand-russells-10-rules-of-critical-thinking\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Bertrand Russell\u2019s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking by Terry Heick For a field of study that explores the nature of knowledge, Philosophy has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}