Question

Directions:
Using the concepts learned through the readings and lecture pages, write a critical analysis essay that answers at least three of the following prompts or questions:

How might you employ critical thinking as a tool to further your career aspirations?

Describe the differences between inert information, assumptions, and inferences. Describe an assumption that you have made in the past that had important consequence.

Where do you see yourself using activated ignorance to think about issues? What steps could you take to move towards activated knowledge on this issue?

What is the difference between activated ignorance and activated knowledge? Where do you have difficulties “thinking for yourself”? Why does critical thinking demand high levels of intellectual autonomy?

Why are concepts, theories, and ideas central to good critical reasoning?

Answer 1

Critical thinking helps in making the right decisions by the virtue of selecting the rational over the irrational by a logical reasoning variation, this can help in providing a clear cut pathway towards one's career aspiration by the aid of having demarcations with respect to what one wants and wished to do.

Inert knowledge leads to inert information, assumptions and inferences, for instance when I was learning French, I was taught a lot of vocabulary, but the conjugation of verbs was neglected, this led me to have sundry words in my vocabulary repertoire, which I couldn't employ due to the lack of conjugation. This also led me to belive that French was a stationary language.

Activated ignorance is something that an individual believes to be true, but in reality, is something that is not true. Activated knowledge can be attained by being less stubborn and being open to information.

Activated knowledge is true knowledge.

High intellectual autonomy is a given with respect to critical thinking as it requires a person to not be overwhelmed by others opinions and act on the basis of them rather than having a critical approach, this can be attained by having roots in theories and concepts.