Finally I understand what is 'critical thinking'
Name:
Clarissa Huay Ching Ngoh
ID:
110108911
Weekly
Interative 8 Question: How The Frankfurt School are both interesting and
important to sociology?
The
Frankfurt School is the first institution in Germany, Europe, where social and
political philosophical knowledge are generated. Sociologically, it is the main
source of development of critical theory. One of the most outstanding Critical
Theorist's figures is Max Horkheimer (1895-1973). He viewed critical thinking as
a thought of an act to transcend tension or to abolish the oppositional
thinking between individual's purposefulness, spontaneity and rationality. Critical
thought may perceived as negative, because it has a concept of people as in
conflict within themselves until the oppositional partner agree what they say
or being persuaded. In fact, this social practice is actually inhuman because
we have to learn to respect and accept societal thoughts instead of
individualistic thought. This inhumanity influences everything that goes on in
the society, it may even alter someone's decision to the worst stage or mislead
the knowledge of someone. The notion of The Frankfurt School is very important
because it explains how critical thinking is generated and how it impacts our
daily lives. Literally, everyone has different thoughts in the society and
people wish to protect their self- opinionated thoughts and thus when this
situation occur, someone would trying to gain social acceptance by persuade
another individual's main thoughts or main ideas. Interestingly, all of us are
human being but we have different intellectuality. We have to understand that
the stupid opinion is treated with the same respect as the intelligent one, that
is what equality called. For an example, educator is an authoritative figure of
student or perceived as individuals with higher intellectual, nonetheless, at
times they will create the falsehood due to the critical thinking of
themselves, this falsehood or untrue knowledge may lead to misunderstanding of
students and thus it subsequently lead to the further misconception of
knowledge in the society. As a result, we can only conclude that a good critical
thinker is someone who is capable to differentiate between right and wrong,
good and bad, in the sense of providing rationality or logics to support their
arguments.
After have a good write-up about what is 'critical thinking',
I think I'm someone who has strong critical thinking skill due to the conclusion of 'I am someone who always show capability of persuade someone although I know I'm the one who are in falsehood'.
The win and lose outcomes in an argument is literally based on the qualitative and quantitative of justifiable reasons of an individual.
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