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I love a good philosophy topic, and I also apologize in advance for the impending wall of text as summarizing has not been my strong suit.
I will start this analysis by noting that I developed a different impression of your thesis each time that I read it. The statement "[w]e go our entire lives thinking that things are the way they are "just because" but what if we take a moment to challenge that thinking? Are you original and do you do your own thinking, or do you go by what society tells you that you should think? What if things are only what we concoct in our minds. If we challenge the status quo and do some deeper thinking, we may find the answers that we are looking for" is ambiguous and I could see it working from both philosophical and psychology points of view.
Starting with the philosophical standpoint, the statement "do you go by what society tells you that you should think", sounds like you are going to be advocating teaching critical thinking in schools or encouraging the audience to read more books about how to be a critical thinker. In fact, you mention critical thinking in the end at …show more content…
The main factors of which include the Cognitive Dissonance Theory, Dissociative Identity Disorder (sometimes called D.I.D.), and just the overall epidemic we have today of not doing enough critical, or original thinking of our own". I kind of see where you are going with this, but I'm not sure that Cognitive dissonance theory and D.I.D are what you are looking for when it comes to everyone conforming and not thinking for themselves. Cognitive dissonance is when you have two beliefs but they don't jive well together mostly as an internal turmoil. Such as a teenager, "I'm such a badass I will make everyone fear and respect me, but I'm such a softy at heart how can I be mean to another person?"or "I believe being a Vegan is so important to the environment, but I like to eat meat
I love a good philosophy topic, and I also apologize in advance for the impending wall of text as summarizing has not been my strong suit.
I will start this analysis by noting that I developed a different impression of your thesis each time that I read it. The statement "[w]e go our entire lives thinking that things are the way they are "just because" but what if we take a moment to challenge that thinking? Are you original and do you do your own thinking, or do you go by what society tells you that you should think? What if things are only what we concoct in our minds. If we challenge the status quo and do some deeper thinking, we may find the answers that we are looking for" is ambiguous and I could see it working from both philosophical and psychology points of view.
Starting with the philosophical standpoint, the statement "do you go by what society tells you that you should think", sounds like you are going to be advocating teaching critical thinking in schools or encouraging the audience to read more books about how to be a critical thinker. In fact, you mention critical thinking in the end at …show more content…
The main factors of which include the Cognitive Dissonance Theory, Dissociative Identity Disorder (sometimes called D.I.D.), and just the overall epidemic we have today of not doing enough critical, or original thinking of our own". I kind of see where you are going with this, but I'm not sure that Cognitive dissonance theory and D.I.D are what you are looking for when it comes to everyone conforming and not thinking for themselves. Cognitive dissonance is when you have two beliefs but they don't jive well together mostly as an internal turmoil. Such as a teenager, "I'm such a badass I will make everyone fear and respect me, but I'm such a softy at heart how can I be mean to another person?"or "I believe being a Vegan is so important to the environment, but I like to eat meat