Looking for Fair-Mindedness in Critical Thinking
Apply your critical thinking and reasoning skills by reflecting on how to become a fair-minded critical thinker.
Reflect how you will exhibit thinking skills as a fair-minded critical thinker. Post your thoughts on your strategy to become confident and expressive about your challenges and abilities as a fair-minded critical thinker. As you develop to be a fair-minded thinker, you become insightful in discussing your personal development as a critical thinker and capable to develop a Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely (SMART) plan for the enhancement of your critical thinking skills.
Recall a specific time when strong feelings interfered with your ability to think critically.
A.) How might you prevent your strong feelings from interfering with your critical thinking during times when you would prefer to think critically?
B.) What can you do to reduce any negative impact of such feelings? What are ethical decision-making models and how will you use them in your critical thinking?
Remember that critical thinking is not just your opinion; rather, it is a claim, assumption, or fact supported by credible evidence that helps to prove an argument.
Looking for a Fair Mindedness in Critical Thinking
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Critical thinking refers to the skillful and responsible way of thinking that is conducive to good judgment. Critical thinking enables one to examine the assumptions made, evaluate evidence, discern hidden values and assess the conclusion made. Therefore a critical thinker cannot be easily tricked by argumentation, sophistry and intellectual trickery because they think ethically and in a reasonable manner (Roberto & Teaching Company, 2009).
Critical thinking may be hindered by strong feelings such as anger, joy, jealous, and fear (Roberto & Teaching Company, 2009). I found myself not thinking critically because of anger and the outcomes of my action were regrettable. I was unhappy because my parents were not in good terms and my mother was so affected by their strained relationship. I happened to have taken my mother to the hospital and as we waited to be attended to, my dad appeared with another young lady whom he had brought to the same hospital to seek medical care. On seeing how tenderly he pushed the trolley towards the casualty area, I was so mad at him because I drew a ...