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The Examined Life

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Can Philosophy Help Sharpen Your Critical Thinking?

If your main goal is to improve your critical thinking, go on take a critical thinking course. If you want to read philosophy, it's got to be because you are motivated by an interest in philosophical questions. In the seventeenth century, philosophy gave birth to the natural sciences. Once you've found a way of trying to answer them, that bit of philosophy can become independent.

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