tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post109716926760735608..comments2024-03-08T04:09:09.836-06:00Comments on Mixing Memory: The Academic Bill of Rights: Conservatives and Critical ThinkingChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08417970139690159046noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-1097249079970862922004-10-08T10:24:00.000-05:002004-10-08T10:24:00.000-05:00Right. I didn't mean to imply that critical thinki...Right. I didn't mean to imply that critical thinking = libera. I was trying to say, there at the end, that critical thinking is ideologically neutral. It can be used against liberal ideas as easily as it can be used against conservative ones. However, within the conservative "reductive world-picture," things are either liberal, or they are conservative, and thus critical thinking aimed at conventions, which is what you often get in universities, must be liberal. <br /><br /><A></A><A></A>Posted by<A><B> </B></A><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fmixingmemory.blogspot.com" TITLE="scarymoonie at aol dot com">Chris</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-1097247170643242122004-10-08T09:52:00.000-05:002004-10-08T09:52:00.000-05:00I think that a better conservative answer to the c...I think that a better conservative answer to the complaint about critical thinking might run as follows:<br /><br />"Liberals claim to have a monopoly on critical thinking, but if they do not provide a rigorous defense of the conventional wisdom, then they are not really engaged in critical thinking at all. Instead, they are just beating down a strawman. To stimulate real critical thinking would require both--or even all--sides of the story at their very best."<br /><br />It's also entirely wrong to say that liberals have a monopoly on critical thinking. After all, it's possible to receive a criticism, evaluate it, and choose the status quo. That too is critical thinking. <br /><br /><A></A><A></A>Posted by<A><B> </B></A><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.positiveliberty.com" TITLE="jason at positiveliberty dot com">Jason Kuznicki</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com