Nussbaum

Nussbaum Our Capacity to Learn “Could there possibly be a more difficult book out there to read' I don’t understand anything I just read!” These were the thoughts circulating through my mind each time I picked up Nussbaum’s “Cultivating Humanity.” In this paper I am going to attempt to make clearer Nussbaum’s thoughts, beliefs, and statements, and add to that my own opinion on her thoughts: whether I agree or disagree. Critical thinking can be simply defined as analyzing thoughts. Argument may perhaps be the most effective style of critical thinking. Nussbaum herself states that “failure to think critically…we need argument, an essential tool of civic freedom.” (Nussbaum 19). In chapter four of “Cultivating Humanity,” I found that it was very difficult to find an instance of critical thinking. She does state however that both Americans and Europeans are alike in that they both know little about other religions around the world, such as Islam. She goes on to state “we know little about other nations’ ideas of work, of business dealings, of family, of morality. This ignorance has led to moral and political error, to failures in human sensitivity and in sheer common sense.” (116). The author is analyzing the ignorance of about, know, cultures, imagination, make, thoughts, nussbaum, world, people, need, thinking, smarter, good, culture, critical, way, should, reader, own, one, much, little, knowledge, ignorance, great, diverse, both, beliefs, author, work, very, understand, times, through, think, therefore