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MESSAGE FOR WEEK BEGINNING 25th September 2006 The same Gang of Three
It is hard to shift the notion that thinking is all about argument and critical thinking. This belief is largely the result of the Renqaissance and the rediscovery of ancient Greek thinking. This was excellent thinking. At the time, however, schools, universities, philosophers and thinkers were all church people. The thinking that they needed was argument and critical thinking. This was needed to prove heretics wrong. That was the key thinking need of the Christian Church. So Socrates and his habits of argument were endorsed. Plato and his absolute truth were most useful. Aristotle and his 'box logic'was fundamental. Other aspects of Greek thinking - before the Gang of Three - were neglected. So we got locked into the notion that truth, argument and critical thinking was what thinking was all about. I touch on this point in my book 'Why So Stupid?' which is now available in paper back from Blackhall publishers, Dublin.
Edward de Bono |