Philosophy and the Search for Ideas: Foundations of Critical Thinking
As historians are quick to point out, the parallels between modern times and the classical world – including not only Greece, but also Rome – are plentiful. No new thinking here. In profound ways, our...
View ArticleWords That Matter: Wittgenstein and Senge on the Power of Language in...
Language, like the culture it derives from, plays a subtle but powerful role in how we interact with others. Yet we are so completely immersed in it, we scarcely give it a second thought. Early in the...
View ArticleLakoff on Metaphor: Rethinking how we Frame and Unpack Complex Problems
Our critical thinking series continues in the language space, focusing now on perhaps the most powerful tool of all: the metaphor. Like the words and grammar of language itself, metaphor is a crucial,...
View Article21st Century Kant: Learning to Frame Knowledge Anew (w/ help from Aristotle &...
Some have spent years studying Kant and his Categorical Framework for knowledge, first published in 1781. I am absolutely fascinated by the implications of Kant’s maddeningly simple chart. Can it be a...
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