RE: [split] Critical Thinking Skills
March 26, 2013 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2013 at 5:38 pm by jstrodel.)
But that isn't what the argument from authority is, and if you read serious books instead of hiding in your atheist free thinker zone, you would know that.
There is some good stuff on the internet, I am not against it, but reading articles on the internet almost never reaches the rigor of seriously studying philosophy, which typically is done using books and pencil and paper.
If you don't write out what you believe in formal logic (or some similar rigorous method) and clarify your ideas on pencil and paper and think through the truth claims and read relevant criticisms, you are not doing real philosophy. You are just following someone else.
(March 26, 2013 at 5:30 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(March 26, 2013 at 5:27 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You are arguing that reading random articles on the internet is the same as reading a book.
What if the articles are not random but are, in fact, pertinent and relevant to whatever subject is at hand?
There is some good stuff on the internet, I am not against it, but reading articles on the internet almost never reaches the rigor of seriously studying philosophy, which typically is done using books and pencil and paper.
If you don't write out what you believe in formal logic (or some similar rigorous method) and clarify your ideas on pencil and paper and think through the truth claims and read relevant criticisms, you are not doing real philosophy. You are just following someone else.