RE: [split] Critical Thinking Skills
March 26, 2013 at 5:21 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2013 at 5:24 pm by jstrodel.)
It is different because anyone can post anything on the internet, whereas if you read books that are carefully chosen that represent the philosophical tradition clearly and put more work into it (because it takes more work to read a book than to read an article), you will be on your way to understanding things about philosophy.
It matters because you don't know what you are talking about, and it is plain as day that the fact that you are even questioning the difference between using wikipedia or reading a random article on a website that isn't subject to any standard of verification and reading books that represent the strongest of the philosophical tradition that you have never seriously studied philosophy (let alone, theology).
Philosophy is very positive towards Christian belief, although Anthony Flew (now a Deist) may say this that or the other thing about the No True Scottsman "fallacy" or this or that, if you study philosophy you will find many of the greatest philosophers in history have been Christian or had positive views of God (from Aristotle to Aquinas through Descarte and Bacon to modern day figures like Mortimer Adler or Alaisdair MacIntyre or Alvin Plantinga).
It matters because you don't know what you are talking about, and it is plain as day that the fact that you are even questioning the difference between using wikipedia or reading a random article on a website that isn't subject to any standard of verification and reading books that represent the strongest of the philosophical tradition that you have never seriously studied philosophy (let alone, theology).
Philosophy is very positive towards Christian belief, although Anthony Flew (now a Deist) may say this that or the other thing about the No True Scottsman "fallacy" or this or that, if you study philosophy you will find many of the greatest philosophers in history have been Christian or had positive views of God (from Aristotle to Aquinas through Descarte and Bacon to modern day figures like Mortimer Adler or Alaisdair MacIntyre or Alvin Plantinga).