Comparing Plato's The Symposium By Scriven And Paul

In my opinion, I think that Plato’s The Symposium conforms to the conceptualization of critical thinking proposed by Scriven and Paul but it also deviates from idea that critical reasoning is largely self-generated and self-centered as proposed by Scriven and Paul.

From the perspective of the methodology of how to incorporate critical thinking into the analysis of a certain subjects, both Plato’s The Symposium and Scriven and Paul’s Defining Critical Thinking emphasize on the intellectually and systematically process of careful evaluation of information collected from personal experiences, observations and individual beliefs.

An author from the New York Magazine suggested that a strange fact of human nature is that two people can experience

It resonates with the mode of approach executed by Eryximachus and Agathon to the subject of love. Eryximachus who was a medical practitioner related love as an element which gratified the good and healthy parts of the body while depriving the diseased parts of the body so that they will cease to be diseased. His claims of expertise and his constant thirst to draw conclusion on a certain subject by making reference to medical matters might be his longing to show off his medical expertise

It is clear that critical thinking is not a self-corrective because we need external input of idea, opinions, active discussion and exchange of knowledge to continuously refresh our mind, to sharpen our cognition, and to view things from new perspectives. Meanwhile, Scriven and Paul also stated that critical thinker strive never to think simplistically about complicated issues but Socrates encourages us to analyze issue through a holistic and appropriate