This – it seems to me – is an important insight to understand what is at the core of the current wide-spread and growing disconnection between people in societies and in the world at large.
Introduction to Critical Thinking by Philipp Huebl – in German.
Huebl shows how our need to protect our identity (or what we regard as our self) stops us from using our ability to think in a critical and independent way. With other words: we have a tendency to make errors in our thinking, if those errors serve our idea about who we are.
