
The Thinker's Guide to the Human Mind
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Linda Elder and Richard Paul explore the basic impulses that influence our thoughts and can distract us from logical or ethical action. Exploring the dangers of egocentric and sociocentric thinking, this guide presents strategies for strengthening emotional intelligence and developing critical thinking virtues.
As part of the Thinker's Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues within every field of study across the world.
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Dr. Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and, through his work and legacy, remains a distinguished thinker in the field. He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. He developed concepts, principles, and theory essential to a robust and fairminded conception of critical thinking. Paul authored or coauthored more than two hundred articles and seven books on the critical thinking. He presented workshops to hundreds of thousands of educators over his 35-year career as a leader in the critical thinking movement.
Content
- The Thinker's Guide to TAKING CHARGE OF THE HUMAN MIND
- Contents
- As humans we live in our Minds
- We Live in Our Minds
- Understanding The Human Mind: The Big Picture
- The Mind's Three Distinctive Functions
- The Dynamic Relationship Between Thinking, Feeling, Wanting
- Behavior as a Product of the Mind's Functions
- Thinking as the Key to Feelings and Desires
- Rational Capacities or Irrational Tendencies Can Control the Mind
- The Logic of Rationality
- Distinguishing Rational from Egocentric and Sociocentric Motives
- Humans Often Distort Reality Through Irrational Lenses
- The Problem of Egocentric Thinking
- Feelings That Accompany Egocentrism
- The Logic of Egocentrism
- Distinguishing Egocentric Domination From Egocentric Submission
- The Logic of Egocentric Domination
- The Logic of Egocentric Submission
- Pathological Dispositions of the Human Mind
- Challenging the Pathological Dispositions of the Human Mind
- Defense Mechanisms of the Mind
- The Problem of Sociocentric Thinking
- Primary Forms of Sociocentric Thought
- Unethical Pursuit of Group Agendas are Driven by Sociocentric Thought
- Sociocentricity: The Logic of Groupishness
- Sociocentricity: The Logic of Group Validation
- Sociocentricity: The Logic of Group Control
- Sociocentricity: The Logic of Conformity
- Popular Misunderstandings of the Mind
- Emotional Intelligence and Critical Thinking
- Some Basic Definitions
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