The Importance Of Critical Thinking In The Modern World

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Critical thinking leads readers to a higher level of understanding and a greater appreciation of stories read using critical thinking. Critical thinking is finding connections and patterns within a topic, issue or story. It is giving explanations with reason and citations, insights, and further asking intellectual questions. Critical thinking is a process that offers advantages and has the ability to make any ancient text relevant to modern day. As mentioned, critical thinking is a process. The start of this process begins with simply reading the text. While reading, it 's important to note everything that may be symbolic such as color and phrasing. After reading the text, it 's important to make connections to one 's self and ask questions …show more content…

Ancient texts, such as Plato 's "Allegory of the Cave", can be connected to the modern world. In this story, there are prisoners who are unable to see anything but the shadows presented in front of them. One is let free, and they turn around and can see what creates the shadow 's and learn that there are things creating the shadows and the shadows are only projections of those objects. The prisoner explores the outside, see the sun, still see 's shadows but they are much clearer than before. His eyes are stung by the brightness of the light, but continues towards enlightenment. He goes to tell the prisoners who are still in the cave and they refuse to believe what he is telling and they prefer to live in their ignorance. This story is about learning and enlightenment. Still relevant today, human 's continue to innovate and discover more and more about the world. There are vast strives in advances and after all these years, there is still major concepts that remain largely unknown such as the string theory and their connection to dark matter. Humans have come so far, once believing that Earth is in the center of the universe to now knowing that a black hole is at the center and Earth orbits the sun. If no one in this world critically thought of questions about things that were believed to be fully understood, there would be no

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