The Art of Thinking (MP3 download)

By Leonard Peikoff Want to Improve Your Method of Thinking?This is a course on what to do with your mind during the act of thought, when to do it and how to do it. Dr. Peikoff teaches you how to make the principles of Objectivist epistemology the guide of your own daily thought processes. These lectures are part new theory and part exercises.1. Volition as a means of ClarityThe problem of clashing contexts; why some students are unable to fully accept what they know to be the truth. The perpetual "clarity-seeker." Why the only solution in such cases is will (not more arguments).2. HierarchyThought as integration. Hierarchy as an indispensable form of integration. Reducing advanced ideas to perceptual data.3. Thinking in EssentialsThinking in essentials as a form of unit-reduction. How to decide what is essential in a particular case, such as a movie, book or person. Translating commonplace remarks in terms of essentials.4. Question & Answer Session (1hr.)Identifying the essence of: