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Synopsis
Humans fail when their mental aim is distorted or their mental methods defective or haphazard. If you are not afraid to acquire practical knowledge regarding the most useful function of your being, study this book.
"The value of a limpid style was never more clearly demonstrated than in 'Thinking as a Science' by Henry Hazlitt. The book covers a difficult field and is something more ambitious than a Book of Logic, attempting to give concisely, profoundly, and lucidly, the process of the inner brain, the brain that exists in spirit. the opening chapter states the necessity of such a volume because of 'the neglect of thinking' and proposes a definition: 'The science of thinking, if such a science there be, is informative. Its purpose is to find those methods which will help us to think constructively and correctly.' The next chapter dives deep into 'thinking with a method' but with such simplicity of vocabulary as to render the queries of the ages graspable by even the untrained intellect. Having cleared the ground Mr. Hazlitt goes on with chapters on concentration, debate and conversation, thinking and reading, writing one's thoughts, thinking as an art, books on thinking, all written in a style distinguished as well as comprehensible. Altogether a valuable book for both student and layman, helpful, provocative of - thinking." -The Living Age
"A good piece of work....There is no doubt at all about the need of instruction in just this field. There is no one region in which the 'cake half turned' quality of our American education is more apparent than in our half-baked thinking. If there is any fallacy which can't get reputable intellectual support from some fellow citizens or other, the reviewer doesn't know what it is. So much the more need that we look to our intellectual processes. The author of course simplifies and popularizes the methods of psychology and logic; the need of method, concentration and much practice is dwelt upon. We are warned - as we ought to be - against prejudice and uncertainty, and are told how to unite our thoughts. And finally, lest, having sharpened our tools, we should have nothing to use them on, we are given a list of subjects upon which we may profitably exercise our powers. A good book for young people, and not a bad book for other people who have fallen into bad mental habits and who simply thinking they think." -Record of Christian Work
CONTENTS
I The Neglect of Thinking
II Thinking With Method
III A Few Cautions
IV Concentration
V Prejudice and Uncertainty
VI Debate and Conversation
VII Thinking and Reading
VIII Writing One’s Thoughts
IX Things Worth Thinking About
X Thinking as an Art
XI Books on Thinking
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