Critical Thinking: Analyzing Yourself, Understanding Others

Critical Thinking: Analyzing Yourself, Understanding Others offers readers a comprehensive, practical overview of the skills needed to become active and open-minded thinkers. The text promotes an understanding of modern global issues while also providing insight into the lives of activists, philosophers, and scholars from around the world like Socrates, Mahatma Gandhi, Confucius, and Nelson Mandela. Thinking activities, historical writings, and contemporary articles encourage a greater understanding of topics like problem solving, morals, prejudice and bias, and logical fallacies. Readers will not only be encouraged to evaluate their own viewpoints but also learn from and assess the beliefs of their peers in order to become well rounded, accepting, and progressive thinkers.